But what I then want to do for those points that fall outside is calculate the distance to the polygon it should be in. Unfortunately although the point doesn't fall into the polygon it should, it does fall into another polygon so when I run NeighbourFinder all i get is the distance to the nearest polygon, not the one with the matching ID. Can anyone advise if this is the best route or if there is a better way of doing this?
you can set the "group by" in the NeighborFinder to the ID. This limits the search to the polygons that have the same ID as the point.
David
Which ID do I use, the ID of the base or the candidate, or both? tbh I have tried all three options and I get the following results:
BASE ID = All go through matched, although the close candidate list does not contain the ID of the candidate, just . In addition I know that some IDs in the base do not have an equivalent in the candidate so I don't think this is getting the right result
CANDIDATE ID = All go through unmatched
BOTH = All go through unmatched
Please find below screenshots of the workbench and transformer parameters if that helps?
Regards
Dan
both the BASE and the CANDIDATE must have an attribute in common, i.e. that it must exist with the same name in both datasets.
So if you're using the attribute called "LCS_L1", that attribute must be present in both BASE and CANDIDATE features (all of them). Then only those BASE and CANDIDATE features where LCS_L1 has the same value will be considered by the NeighborFinder.
David