I have two point feature classes for the midwest USA that I geocoded. Shapefile 1 has 150 locations and shapefile 2 has 4 locations. I have used a spatial join to calculate the closest location for all shp1 points to the nearest shape 2 points.
Everything seems to have worked perfectly, except that the distance field that is being output by the shapefile appears to be in decimal degrees. I need to calculate the distance in feet or meters. I realize that this is a projection issue based on the geocoding output. How can I fix this to be able to calculate the distance between these points??
Shp1 and shp2 are currently in GCS_WGS_1984. All help is greatly appreciated!!!
