topic Getting Elevation of Points on a map in Spatial Statistics Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/spatial-statistics-questions/getting-elevation-of-points-on-a-map/m-p/388773#M1271 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello!</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have thousands of points in a layer and a layer of contour lines with an elevation field. Is there a way to calculate a field of elevation for the points based on what contour lines they are inbetween?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:48:57 GMT JustinBeynon 2013-09-17T16:48:57Z Getting Elevation of Points on a map https://community.esri.com/t5/spatial-statistics-questions/getting-elevation-of-points-on-a-map/m-p/388773#M1271 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello!</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have thousands of points in a layer and a layer of contour lines with an elevation field. Is there a way to calculate a field of elevation for the points based on what contour lines they are inbetween?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:48:57 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/spatial-statistics-questions/getting-elevation-of-points-on-a-map/m-p/388773#M1271 JustinBeynon 2013-09-17T16:48:57Z Re: Getting Elevation of Points on a map https://community.esri.com/t5/spatial-statistics-questions/getting-elevation-of-points-on-a-map/m-p/388774#M1272 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Justin,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>There are a few ways to approach this.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>One way is to use the </SPAN><A href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//00170000003n000000">Feature to Line</A><SPAN> this will create polygon features from your contours.&nbsp; You can then do a </SPAN><A href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//00080000000q000000">Spatial Join</A><SPAN> between your points and the new polygon layer.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Another way would be to create a raster using the </SPAN><A href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//009z0000006s000000">Topo to Raster</A><SPAN> tool.&nbsp; Then you can </SPAN><A href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//009z0000002t000000">Extract Values to Points</A><SPAN> to get the interpolated elevation values at each one of your points.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Hope this helps!</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Best,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Chris B.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:55:09 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/spatial-statistics-questions/getting-elevation-of-points-on-a-map/m-p/388774#M1272 ChristopherBlinn1 2013-09-17T16:55:09Z