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ArcPy and ArcGIS: Geospatial Analysis with Python

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ArcPy and ArcGIS: Geospatial Analysis with Python

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
ArcPy and ArcGIS – Geospatial Analysis with Python
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 12. The End of the Beginning

This book is almost done, but there is so much more to know about writing code in Python and ArcPy. Unfortunately, I can't fit it all into one book, but that also means that you get to have fun exploring all of the methods and properties of ArcPy. As a conclusion to the book, we will cover some other important topics that can crop up when writing ArcPy scripts. Combined with the lessons from earlier chapters, I hope you'll soon be using ArcPy at work, at school, or just for fun (why not?).

This chapter will cover the following topics:

  • Working with field information – types, aliases, domains, spatial types, and more

  • Accessing information describing a Feature Class

  • Automatically generating a Feature Class and populating it with fields

  • Automatically creating File Geodatabases and Feature Datasets

  • Creating a Script tool that will run the bus stop analysis and generate results in an automatically generated File Geodatabase, Feature Dataset, and Feature Class