Hi all,
I hope this is an easy question for you.
I would like to do a spatial join (in the toolbox, Analysis tools) between two shapefiles:
(1) the target file: a point dataset, of which all fields should be retained
(2) the join feature: a polygon shapefile with various polygons. I want to add to the target shapefile the information for each point into which polygon (identified by the polygon id) of the they occur. If they don't occur in one of the polygons, the code should be some number which cannot be confused with a polygon ID (e.g. 999).
This works well when using the Spatial Join tool (setting it to Join-one-to-one, keep all target features, and choose in "Field map of joining feature" only the column with the polygon ID), however, if points from the target file fall within none of the polygons of the join file, unfortunately the value "0" is joined. As there is also a polygon with the ID "0", this is bad and will lump in supsequent analysis the points from the "0" polygon together will all points not falling into any polygon at all.
Is there a way to let ArcGIS know what code to give to those target features to which no join feature can be joined to ?
Thank you very much!
Kerstin
