Occasionally I write about things on this site that I haven’t been easily able to discover via a Google search - here’s one of them - I’ve been doing some GIS work for a client recently and I found myself befuddled by a simple problem.
When we’re faced with a situation where we have a large number of xy or lat long points in arcmap (for instance, when we’ve got a lot of yield monitor data) overlaid over the top of a polygon data set (for instance, block or paddock boundary shapefiles) in arcGis, what’s the best way to select only those paddocks (polygon shapefiles) which contain logged points?
Actually, it’s not too difficult. You have to use (more…)
