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- Tourist symbol – because we want to copy all data from the Tourist symbol layer table to newly created output table we set it as master layer.
- National Parks – this layer stores the National Park names. We set is as detail layer.
- Because we know that some tourist symbols are located inside National Parks records we’ve selected which intersect with master record comparison method.
- We want to add a column which will store a name of National Park. We know that the names are stored in NAME column so we check it.
- SM_Tourist_Symbol – this is a name of the Output table.
Everything When everything is set, we can click OK button to confirm all settings and move to the next step. Save Spatial Merge Layer window will appear. Please set a name and select the location for the new layer. To start the operation please click the OK button.
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This is how the newly created SM Tourist symbol layer looks in table Table tab:
As you see the table stores the data and the location of all records from Tourist symbol table. Please also notice that the NAME column name from the National Parks is changed to NAME2. That happened because the Tourist symbol table already contained a NAME column and Earthlight is automatically updating new columns names if it detects an already existing one.
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