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Python for ArcGIS Pro

By : Silas Toms, Bill Parker
Book Image

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

Generating an HTML file using ArcGIS API for JavaScript

You now have a shapefile with all of the data collected hosted via ArcGIS Online. This can be used to create a web app using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, the final stage of this chapter’s case study. It’s a bit different from what we’ve been doing so far, but will make for a pretty and interactive web map based on the data you just created.

You can look at the completed HTML file in the code folders for the final result if you encounter any issues.

We will not be writing any Python code in this section, but by using the ArcGIS API for JavaScript and some HTML tags, it will demonstrate how we can extend what we have done so far to create an interface that is very useful to an end user:

  1. Create an HTML file in a text editor of your choice.
  2. Add in HTML tags, <html></html>. Everything will occur between these two tags.
  3. Following those tags, add in the head...