Select a point by attribute inside a polygon

[ManfredSaberbein]

Hi, I have 88k polygons with 128k points and I want to select the points with the highest attribute "1-12" inside each polygon.

Thank you

[RPGIS]

So you can accomplish this using the intersect tool (or similar) in conjunction with other tools, or methods, to determine the highest "1-12" for each polygon assuming that each polygon has that many points inside.

Also, what do you mean by highest attribute "1-12". If you mean ObjectID, then that will take a few more steps.

[ThomasHamill · Accepted solution]

@ManfredSaberbein you could also do this with a Spatial Join.  Spatially Join the Points layer to the Polygons layer and select the option that would "Summarize by Maximum."

If you run the Intersect tool instead, I'd recommend running Table To Excel afterwards and pull the data into a Pivot Table for easy summarization (to find the max of the Point field of interest).

[ManfredSaberbein]

Thank you, I did it! 🎉