Hello Marie If you are not concerned about the overlap you could convert the blocks to centroids then do the spatial join... if you are concerned about the overlap (percentage the block falls into the overlaying polygon) then you could use the intersect command which may assign a block to two adjacent polygons... Below is something I found on the ESRI resources website...it may provide you with the use case that you need. Select polygon using polygon [cid:image001.gif@01CFBDFC.47C89650] Select polygon using polygon INTERSECT A, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, M CONTAINS C, E, H, M COMPLETELY_CONTAINS C CONTAINS_CLEMENTINI C, E, H, M WITHIN F, G, H, M COMPLETELY_WITHIN F WITHIN_CLEMENTINI F, G, H, M ARE_IDENTICAL_TO H, M BOUNDARY_TOUCHES D, E, G, H, I, J, M SHARE_A_LINE_SEGMENT_WITH D, H, I, M CROSSED_BY_THE_OUTLINE_OF A, E, G, J, K HAVE_THEIR_CENTER_IN C, E, F, G, H, K, L From: ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net [mailto:ctpp-news-bounces@chrispy.net] On Behalf Of Marie Bousfield Sent: Friday, August 22, 2014 10:54 AM To: ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net Subject: [CTPP] spatial join In Arcview 10, I am trying to join the 2010 census blocks to another polygon feature with city districts. I am using the spatial join (within). The problem is that the blocks at the borders of the districts are not joined. Any help? Is there a better way?? Thanks!! Marie Bousfield

Hi Marie, Here is the trick that will allow you to get all the census blocks within the district boundary. Export the census bock boundary shape file to a point shape file as centroid points. That way, the centroid points will be within the district boundary. Use spatial join (within) to join two layers Tara Tarannum Rima Cambridge Systematics, Inc. 100 Cambridge Park Drive, Suite 400 Cambridge, MA 02140 Tel: 617 234 0498 Fax: 617 354 1542 Email: trima(a)camsys.com From: "Marie Bousfield" <mbousfield(a)rcn.com> To: <ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net>et>, Date: 08/22/2014 11:22 AM Subject: [CTPP] spatial join Sent by: ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net In Arcview 10, I am trying to join the 2010 census blocks to another polygon feature with city districts. I am using the spatial join (within). The problem is that the blocks at the borders of the districts are not joined. Any help? Is there a better way?? Thanks!! Marie Bousfield _______________________________________________ ctpp-news mailing list ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net https://www.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/ctpp-news