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Python for ArcGIS Pro

By : Silas Toms, Bill Parker
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Python for ArcGIS Pro

By: Silas Toms, Bill Parker

Overview of this book

Integrating Python into your day-to-day ArcGIS work is highly recommended when dealing with large amounts of geospatial data. Python for ArcGIS Pro aims to help you get your work done faster, with greater repeatability and higher confidence in your results. Starting from programming basics and building in complexity, two experienced ArcGIS professionals-turned-Python programmers teach you how to incorporate scripting at each step: automating the production of maps for print, managing data between ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, creating custom script tools for sharing, and then running data analysis and visualization on top of the ArcGIS geospatial library, all using Python. You’ll use ArcGIS Pro Notebooks to explore and analyze geospatial data, and write data engineering scripts to manage ongoing data processing and data transfers. This exercise-based book also includes three rich real-world case studies, giving you an opportunity to apply and extend the concepts you studied earlier. Irrespective of your expertise level with Esri software or the Python language, you’ll benefit from this book’s hands-on approach, which takes you through the major uses of Python for ArcGIS Pro to boost your ArcGIS productivity.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Part I: Introduction to Python Modules for ArcGIS Pro
5
Part II: Applying Python Modules to Common GIS Tasks
10
Part III: Geospatial Data Analysis
14
Part IV: Case Studies
18
Other Books You May Enjoy
19
Index

Case Study: Advanced Map Automation

You may be familiar with data-driven pages in ArcGIS Desktop and using them to export multiple pages to PDF from one layout view to make a map book. In ArcGIS Pro, data-driven pages have been replaced with map series, which also use a single layout to export multiple pages to PDF. This chapter’s case study will see you using ArcPy to take a layout and create, add, and style layers to the layout, along with extracting data from those layers and adding that data as text to the layout. Then, you will export a map to PDF before moving to the next selected block group and completing the process again. Finally, you will merge all the PDFs into a single map book.

In Chapter 7, you learned how to automate map production using ArcPy. In this chapter’s case study, you will take what you have learned and extend that to create a set of maps displaying minority populations along a discontinued bus route. You will be highlighting block groups...