Assign labels to polygons

Dialog box

The Assign Labels to Polygons operation can be used to recode polygons in a polygon map according to label points in a point map. For each label point, the closest polygon is determined; then the class name, ID or value of the label point is assigned to that polygon.

Dialog box options:

Input polygon map:

Select an input polygon map. Open the list box and select the desired input map, or drag a polygon map directly from the Catalog into this box. No special input map requirements.

Label points:

Similarly, select an input point map.

Output polygon map:

Type a name for the output polygon map that will contain the recoded polygons.

Description:

Optionally, type a description for the output map. The description will appear in the status bar of the Main window when moving the mouse pointer over the map in a Catalog, and in the title bar of a map window when the output map is displayed. If no description is supplied, the output map will use its own definition as description.

When you click the Show button, the dependent output map will be defined, calculated and shown. When you click the Define button, the dependent output map will only be defined; if necessary the map will be calculated later, for instance when the map is opened to be displayed.

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