Here is the problem I am hoping to get assistance with. I have a large area of points (covers 9 counties) for which I have created a grid polygon that has 382 boxes . I would like to write a python script or create a model that will select each box of the grid and then using that selected box do a "selection by location" of the point feature class finding the point with the high value in a column in the attribute table. The highest value would get a 1 in a field called "grid_ht". The code or model would work sequentially through each box of the grid and finding the highest valued point in that location. What I am trying to do is find and mark the highest point (elevation) within each part of the grid. It would need to be able ignore boxes that do not have any point features with their boundaries. Anyone have suggestions?
So:
- Select Grid ID #1
- Select by location - Summit points
- find highest point in that box and put a 1 in it's Grid_Ht column
- select Grid ID #2
- Select by location - Summit points
- find highest point in that box and put a 1 in it's Grid_Ht column
- Select Grid ID #3 and so on.
