I have a point feature class which represents climate stations and I have a polygon feature class for counties. To determine which climate station fits best to a county I would like to know for every polygon what point is the nearest. Does someone has an idea which tool I can use or another method to solve this problem?
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You could start with converting County polygons to points Feature To Point—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop
Then use Near tool between the County points and Climate Stations Near—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop .
PS moving to Geoprocessing out of the general void
for your reference GeoNet Community Structure
without seeing your map there are a number of options... not an exhaustive list but..
Spatial Join—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop all license levels
Near—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop advanced
Generate Near Table—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop advanced
and even some of the overlay tools may give you what you want (ie intersect)
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You could start with converting County polygons to points Feature To Point—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop
Then use Near tool between the County points and Climate Stations Near—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop .