gis spatial join

Question 1

spatial join

Answer 1

A type of table join operation in which fields from one layer’s attribute table are appended to another layer’s attribute table based on the relative locations of the features in the two layers. Function that combines the attributes of features in two layers based on containment and distance

Question 2

summarized join

Answer 2

Join that combines the records of the two attribute tables with a one to many cardinality by assigning each output record a single value derived statistically from the many input values

Question 3

simple join

Answer 3

a join that combines two layers according to common locations when a one-to-one spatial relationship exists between the layers

Question 4

logical consistency

Answer 4

a measure of how well data features represent real-world features, in particular with respect to topology