The spatial match tool allows you to establish a spatial relationship between two spatial objects, referred to as "target" and "universe".
This tool contains two input anchors.
- The known spatial object is referred to as the target.
- The unknown spatial object is referred to as the universe.
For example, when looking at the location of fire incidents and locations of fire stations and you want to find out the spatial relationship between these two objects, the location of incidents would be the target and the location of fire station would be the universe.
In the configuration pane, the spatial object from the target input is selected. Notably, in the U input you are able to either add in the spatial object from your data OR you can add in these records from a file or database. The advantage of using records from a file or database is that it can save a lot of time when running the workflow.
Next, select which spatial relationship is relevant to the question.
This link is also very helpful to establish the difference between these relationships.
The spatial match tool also has an embedded select tool within which allows you to reorder and rename fields as well as changing data type and sizes.
There are two output anchors; M which is the matched records and U which is the unmatched records.
Now add a browse tool and view your spatial matched data!