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Hi,

I'm having trouble appending one feature from a geodatabase, with another feature from a different geodatabase.

 

To put it simply I want to turn 2 features into 1 feature.

 

I'm using the terminology ("append") from this article, so I hope I've phrased this question correctly Combining Multiple Streams of Data (Append vs. Merge or Join) (safe.com).

 

The schema is the same, I've attached a .gdb with the example data within it.

 

Note: this is part of a much larger question, of how to append two separate .gdbs together (both with the same schema), but I figured I'd start on this mirco level and expand what I can learn from this forum to solve the bigger task at hand. I've attached a pic of the my attempt (this mess may or may not help)

 

Thanks for your assistance

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If the schemas of the incoming features already match and you only want to merge those features in a new consolidated GDB, you do not need a FeatureMerger. Simply feed the output ports of like features from your FeatureReaders into the writer or downstream transformers to process them together. To go a step further, if the schemas are the same between the input datasets, a single FeatureReader can be used to read both using the "Select Multiple Folders/Files" option in the reader parameters.

Hi, thanks for your response.

I tried what you suggested ... "a single FeatureReader can be used to read both using the "Select Multiple Folders/Files" option".

This worked, for example a single feature class was written with all the "Usage1_ADMARE_a" areas and all the "Usage2_ADMARE_a" areas within it. (see pic01, in attached zip). Brilliant.

 

If I carry this concept through to attempt to merge the remaining common features (see pic02), are there any efficiencies I could do, so that I could avoid mapping every single group (grouped by their object name ADMARE, BCNCAR, BCNISD, etc).

 

If you it helps see also atttached a .gdb example, with some feature classes, not all. There's about 100 objects within each usage band, 6 bands in total.

 

 

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