I ve two shapefiles. Cities and States...Two shapefiles doesn't have a common field to join..The task is to assign the corresponding city to the state.I can overlay those two shp files and merge the cities that fall within the state manually.it seems to be a time consuming process.i need to automate the process.I tried it using model builder... But i cant proceed for joining the attributes of those shp files... Pls help
Start with a spatial join and see if that partially solves your problem
Thanks..