ArcGIS Desktop – Using Spatial Join for Many-to-One Relates

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I'm trying to do a spatial join that takes the attributes of multiple polygons and applies them to a single polygon in another layer. The data is currently in a geodatabase, but can be exported to shp if needed.

In the example below I want to end up with polygon 1 also having the attributes of the features that intersect it so A, B and C. The output doesn't have to remain as a single feature so the output layer would have features 1A, 1B and 1C.

Many to one join

I am using ArcGIS 10.1 for Desktop.

To clarify, the output would need to maintain the geometry of 1 for all 3 output features so that they have the same area and 3 different sets of attributes rather than splitting the feature into 3 parts.

Best Answer

Use ArcGIS Spatial Join Tool with these settings:

  • target_features = layer1
  • join_features = layerABC
  • join_operation = JOIN_ONE_TO_MANY
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