Finding Nearest record point with same attribute

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08-30-2018 03:33 PM
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JoshuaSindel
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I have two point features.  One contains records from my organization, another contains records from another organization.  We're both tracking the same info - plant populations.  Our data is in points and their data is in polygons, but I also created a centroid feature class.  I want to match each of our records (points) to the nearest polygon or centroid point record of their data with the same attribute (same species name) to find which records in their set match with each of ours (many of our point matching to one of theirs), to find the leftover populations of theirs that we aren't tracking and possibly vice versa, and discover which of our records are so far away from one of theirs that there may be some sort of error (species misidentification?)

Any thoughts,

I may be able to do this iteratively in Python and would welcome that sort of solution, but would prefer a GUI solution.

Thanks

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DanPatterson_Retired
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separate the like points and the like polygons for now... the rest is baggage.

Near—Help | ArcGIS Desktop 

Generate Near Table—Help | ArcGIS Desktop 

is you have the appropriate advanced license.  If not let me know before putting out other suggestions