I have a point shapefile with a plot location in it, and the point grid takes a long time to load (4000000 rows and 10 columns). I need to convert it to raster, but the problem is that after converting it to raster, each cell contains multiple plot points due to cell size and cell assignment type. For the given cell size, many plots are occupied in a single cell, and cell assignment selects one (lowest FID). I considered creating a fishnet for the point shape file and performing a spatial join before converting to raster, but this would take a long time. Is there a better way to convert the point shapefile to raster so that each cell only has one point (plot), preferably in the center?
