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Joining/Adding Attribute from a GDB File

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06-18-2014 03:27 PM
GeorgeMiyamoto
New Contributor
This may sound like a very basic question, but I'm new to ArcMap and still trying to work my way around.  I tried searching, but wasn't sure exactly what to search for.

What I'm trying to accomplish is I have a shapefile with census tracts.  I have another shapefile (or GDB) that contains custom districts that I made.  I want to the census tract attribute table to distinguish which custom district it lands in.  Can someone please help me?  I thought it was a spatial join, but I may be wrong.  Thank you!
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GeorgeMiyamoto
New Contributor
I wanted to bump this up.  Does anyone have a good solution?  Thank you.
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curtvprice
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Yes, Spatial Join will probably work.

If you have an ArcGIS Advanced license, there are more capable tools like Identity. These tools are in the analysis toolbox.
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