Join points to nearest polygon

[MikeWissner]

Hello All,

I have a point layer that I would like to join to polygons, however, some of the points fall outside of the polygons.  I need to include all the points in the join and was wondering if anyone knew of a method to join the points that fall outside of the polygons to the nearest polygon feature?

Any suggestions would be much appreciated,

thanks, mike

[ChristopherBlinn1]

Mike,

Could you use the Near tool to find the closest polygon FID for all points?  This will add the NEAR_FID field to the point layer.  You can also add the distance and angle is that is needed as well.

Hope this helps!

Best,
Chris B.

[MikeWissner]

Thanks,

The results from the near analysis gave me very odd data; the near_fid column had hundreds of objects with a near_fid of -1.

any ideas or other suggestions?


-mike

[ChristopherBlinn1]

Mike,

Can you provide a sample set of your data?  I can see if the Near tool settings just need tweaking.

Chris B.