I have two polygon layers, a vegetation layer and a treatment layer. I want to add a field to the attribute layer of the vegetation layer to indicate if any part of the polygon has been treated (overlaps with a treatment layer).
For the above example – I want an attribute table that ends up looking like
I do not want to intersect the two layers – I need to keep the full polygons in the vegetation layer, I just want to know if they've been treated. There are too many polygons to do this manually.
Best Answer
If you want to avoid using the Intersect tool, it seems you have two simple and quick options: