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I have a featureclass that is a grid of the countries of the world (88,110 squares).
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I am trying to assign all the grid cells to the country that each cell MOST contains (from a shapefile of country polygons).

The example cell shown below is on the border of Mexico and the United States. It mostly contains Mexico and I would like the corresponding "COUNTRY" field to only assign/populate with "Mexico".enter image description here

I've performed a union of mygrid2 to a shapefile (world_countries_generalized). A bit confused on the proper inputs on summarize within and creating a query layer. enter image description here

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I would try the following workflow:

  1. Union your grid with your country boundaries
  2. Summarize your data, grouping by cell ID and county name and computing max area
  3. Create a query layer joining on cell ID and max area and pass over county name

This approach requires all datasets to be in the same file geodatabase.

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  • I've performed the union but am a bit confused on the proper inputs for the summarize within step (what input for each blank) and your suggestion of the query layer step. I've included an updated screenshot above.
    – emwtg2
    Feb 19 at 17:46
  • @emwtg2, I have added links in my answer to the appropriate tools.
    – Hornbydd
    Feb 20 at 10:51

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