topic Re: merging small polygons with the biggest adjacent one in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/merging-small-polygons-with-the-biggest-adjacent/m-p/137747#M7953 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote">Hi Ana,<BR /><BR />As long as the polygons are touching, you could use the <A href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//00170000005p000000">Eliminate tool</A> if you have ArcInfo.<BR /><BR />Best,<BR />Melanie S.</BLOCKQUOTE><BR /><SPAN> </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>DONE! I used one of my workmate's ArcInfo <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:">😄</span> thanks a lot for your reply, it really made my work easier</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:23:38 GMT AnaOrtega 2013-03-15T16:23:38Z merging small polygons with the biggest adjacent one https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/merging-small-polygons-with-the-biggest-adjacent/m-p/137743#M7949 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have a polygon shapefile with almost 100,000 records, around 80,000 are small polygons that i'd like to merge to the biggest polygon adjacent to each one of them. I can't use dissolve cause i need the little polygons to change their attributes to the largest nearest one. </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Obviously i'm looking for an automatic solution, otherwise it would take me months of selecting each small polygon and then dissolving it with the nearest one by hand.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any ideas?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Greetings,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Ana</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:42:58 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/merging-small-polygons-with-the-biggest-adjacent/m-p/137743#M7949 AnaOrtega 2013-03-14T20:42:58Z Re: merging small polygons with the biggest adjacent one https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/merging-small-polygons-with-the-biggest-adjacent/m-p/137744#M7950 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi Ana,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Are your large polygons and small polygons in the same feature class?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Best,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Melanie S.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 14 Mar 2013 21:19:57 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/merging-small-polygons-with-the-biggest-adjacent/m-p/137744#M7950 MelanieSummers 2013-03-14T21:19:57Z Re: merging small polygons with the biggest adjacent one https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/merging-small-polygons-with-the-biggest-adjacent/m-p/137745#M7951 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi Ana,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>As long as the polygons are touching, you could use the </SPAN><A href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//00170000005p000000">Eliminate tool</A><SPAN> if you have ArcInfo.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Best,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Melanie S.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:31:24 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/merging-small-polygons-with-the-biggest-adjacent/m-p/137745#M7951 MelanieSummers 2013-03-15T13:31:24Z Re: merging small polygons with the biggest adjacent one https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/merging-small-polygons-with-the-biggest-adjacent/m-p/137746#M7952 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi Melanie,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks for your reply, yeah, my polygons are in the same future class.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>And unfortunately i dont have ArcInfo, but i'll check if i can use the Eliminate tool in ArcEditor. Just check the link you left and seems that it's just what i need. Now only to solve the "little detail" of ArcInfo licensing.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Thanks a lot!!</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Ana T.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:52:52 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/merging-small-polygons-with-the-biggest-adjacent/m-p/137746#M7952 AnaOrtega 2013-03-15T14:52:52Z Re: merging small polygons with the biggest adjacent one https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/merging-small-polygons-with-the-biggest-adjacent/m-p/137747#M7953 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote">Hi Ana,<BR /><BR />As long as the polygons are touching, you could use the <A href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//00170000005p000000">Eliminate tool</A> if you have ArcInfo.<BR /><BR />Best,<BR />Melanie S.</BLOCKQUOTE><BR /><SPAN> </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>DONE! I used one of my workmate's ArcInfo <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:">😄</span> thanks a lot for your reply, it really made my work easier</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:23:38 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/merging-small-polygons-with-the-biggest-adjacent/m-p/137747#M7953 AnaOrtega 2013-03-15T16:23:38Z Re: merging small polygons with the biggest adjacent one https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/merging-small-polygons-with-the-biggest-adjacent/m-p/137748#M7954 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Check out </SPAN><A href="http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/11004/removing-small-spaces-between-polygons">http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/11004/removing-small-spaces-between-polygons</A><SPAN> for a variety of suggestions.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:33:30 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/merging-small-polygons-with-the-biggest-adjacent/m-p/137748#M7954 JohnSobetzer 2013-03-15T16:33:30Z