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I have one large point feature class and another smaller point feature class. The larger FC contains most, but not all, of the features that are in the smaller FC.
I would like to extract the few features in the smaller class that are not in the larger FC and append them to the larger FC, essentially a union of the classes (but for point FCs, not polygons). I would prefer to do this using attributes; the two FCs have some matching fields, but in this case, Select By Location is not precise enough (there are some matching features in the two classes that are not completely aligned with one another).
Ideas? Maybe I am overlooking something, this seems like it should be pretty simple. Thanks, J
I have one large point feature class and another smaller point feature class. The larger FC contains most, but not all, of the features that are in the smaller FC.
I would like to extract the few features in the smaller class that are not in the larger FC and append them to the larger FC, essentially a union of the classes (but for point FCs, not polygons). I would prefer to do this using attributes; the two FCs have some matching fields, but in this case, Select By Location is not precise enough (there are some matching features in the two classes that are not completely aligned with one another).
Ideas? Maybe I am overlooking something, this seems like it should be pretty simple. Thanks, J
I have one large point feature class and another smaller point feature class. The larger FC contains most, but not all, of the features that are in the smaller FC.
I would like to extract the few features in the smaller class that are not in the larger FC and append them to the larger FC, essentially a union of the classes (but for point FCs, not polygons). I would prefer to do this using attributes; the two FCs have some matching fields, but in this case, Select By Location is not precise enough (there are some matching features in the two classes that are not completely aligned with one another).
Ideas? Maybe I am overlooking something, this seems like it should be pretty simple. Thanks, J
use select by location. Select all the points in the smaller feature that intersect the larger. Then do a switch selection. you now have selected all the smaller point features that are not identical to the larger.I mentioned in my question tht Selection by Location will not work in this case.