topic Model Builder idea... for giving generic location attributes to features in Geoprocessing Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/model-builder-idea-for-giving-generic-location/m-p/444363#M14967 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I have a zillion point/ line/ polygon features in a GDB with a domain which allows me to select a town name which the feature is in...&nbsp; I also have a town polygon layer with town names in it...</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I want to automate this so that I can get every feature to have the correct town name attribute without having to make sure to get it right when i make the feature.... (also so I can get all the ones that got missed when data was created...</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 16 Oct 2013 12:49:19 GMT DavidAinley1 2013-10-16T12:49:19Z Model Builder idea... for giving generic location attributes to features https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/model-builder-idea-for-giving-generic-location/m-p/444363#M14967 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I have a zillion point/ line/ polygon features in a GDB with a domain which allows me to select a town name which the feature is in...&nbsp; I also have a town polygon layer with town names in it...</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I want to automate this so that I can get every feature to have the correct town name attribute without having to make sure to get it right when i make the feature.... (also so I can get all the ones that got missed when data was created...</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 16 Oct 2013 12:49:19 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/model-builder-idea-for-giving-generic-location/m-p/444363#M14967 DavidAinley1 2013-10-16T12:49:19Z Re: Model Builder idea... for giving generic location attributes to features https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/model-builder-idea-for-giving-generic-location/m-p/444364#M14968 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote">I have a zillion point/ line/ polygon features in a GDB with a domain which allows me to select a town name which the feature is in...&nbsp; I also have a town polygon layer with town names in it...<BR /><BR />I want to automate this so that I can get every feature to have the correct town name attribute without having to make sure to get it right when i make the feature.... (also so I can get all the ones that got missed when data was created...</BLOCKQUOTE><BR /><SPAN> </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Spatial Join and then a normal join can do it.&nbsp; You might need to extract the centroids of lines and polygons, since if they touch the town boundaries they can pick up two or more towns.&nbsp; Anyway, it processes entire feature classes with only a few geoprocessing steps.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 16 Oct 2013 13:02:23 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/model-builder-idea-for-giving-generic-location/m-p/444364#M14968 RichardFairhurst 2013-10-16T13:02:23Z