Key Features
Book Description
If you are a GIS student or professional who needs an understanding of how to use ArcPy to reduce repetitive tasks and perform analysis faster, this book is for you. It is also a valuable book for Python programmers who want to understand how to automate geospatial analyses.What you will learn
- Understand how to integrate Python into ArcGIS and make GIS analysis faster and easier
- Model an analysis and export it to Python for further improvement
- Create Python functions from exported scripts using ArcToolbox tools to avoid repetitive code
- Update the records of interest in your existing geospatial data automatically using data cursors
- Add new geospatial data to existing datasets automatically from fieldcollected data or data produced during analysis
- Export formatted analysis results to spreadsheets automatically
- Update map documents with analysisgenerated data and export maps to PDF or image formats
- Create geometric networks and analyze routes using scripts
Who this book is for
If you are a GIS student or professional who needs an understanding of how to use ArcPy to reduce repetitive tasks and perform analysis faster, this book is for you. It is also a valuable book for Python programmers who want to understand how to automate geospatial analyses.
Table of Contents
- Introduction to Python for ArcGIS
- Setting up the Python environment for ArcGIS automation
- Creating the first Python Script using ArcGIS ModelBuilder
- Creating a complex Arcpy script
- Using Data Cursors to Search/Update/Insert attribute data
- ArcPy Geometry Types and How to Use Them with DataCursors
- Script Tools ? How to turn a Script into a Tool
- Introduction to Arcpy.Mapping
- More Arcpy.Mapping Techniques
- Bringing it together ? Create a Script Tool that performsanalysis and exports out a map book
- Advanced topics ? using Arcpy for Advanced Analysis
- The End of the Beginning
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