Create yes/no field based on location of other shapefiles

Question

Hi,

I believe what I'm wanting to achieve is fairly simple...
I'm wanting to create a field which basically says yes or no to whether or not the feature falls completely within another feature in a different shapefile.

I've tried using the spatial join function and it works in that it can distinguish whether or not it falls within another feature but the field doesn't say yes/no it has a value in.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

JonathanHarper1 · Answer

I had a play around with this in the first instance but didn't know how to do the field calculate to set everything that was selected as Yes.

I assume it's very similar to the 2nd part of the above methodology?

Cheers

AngelaSpitzer · Answer

A less scripty way of doing this is simply to select features by location. Once they are selected you just calculate the field (yes) for everything that is selected. Then sort that field so that all the ones with a yes are grouped together. Then highlight everything without a yes and then calculate the field of those to say 'no'. Easy.

JonathanHarper1 · Answer

Brilliant that worked a treat.

Thanks very much for your help, I really appreciate it 🙂