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I have two shapefiles:

  1. Polygons of parks in Africa. Each park (polygon) has a row of data regarding it's size, name, date of establishment etc.
  2. Random points in parks in Africa. Here, I generated 500 random points in each park.Therefore this attribute table has 500 (random points) x 224 parks = 96096 rows.

However, in my random points shapefile there is no indication of which points are in which park. I would like to know how I can get the park's name from the polygon shapefile to match each point ID that is in that park? I see that my random points shapefile has a column called CID which goes from 0 - 224 (Indicating the parks that the points are in), but I did not specify this and I would like park name to be there instead (even though I know it will be repeated 500 times for each matching row).

I am using ArcMap 10.2

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    Have you tried a spatial join? – MyFamily Apr 16 '15 at 11:04
  • Thank you so much! I definitely tried it before - but there must have had a bug or something because (murphys law) it worked fantastically. I thought I was missing a fundamental piece of information!Thanks again! – user50601 Apr 16 '15 at 11:40
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    You did not need a Spatial Join (although that works as well). You could have just used a standard join. The CID field values is already the Park ObjectID, so just join CID of the points to the ObjectID of the Parks. This would display the correct park attributes on each point. Then just export the joined points and you would have a permanent point feature class with the all of the park attributes. – Richard Fairhurst Apr 16 '15 at 11:50
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You can accomplish this task with a variety of the analysis tools.

Intersect (Analysis)

Computes a geometric intersection of the input features. Features or portions of features which overlap in all layers and/or feature classes will be written to the output feature class.

Identity (Analysis)

Computes a geometric intersection of the input features and identity features. The input features or portions thereof that overlap identity features will get the attributes of those identity features.

Spatial Join (Analysis)

Joins attributes from one feature to another based on the spatial relationship. The target features and the joined attributes from the join features are written to the output feature class.

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