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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)
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Part I: Introduction to Python Modules for ArcGIS Pro
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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

ArcGIS API for Python

The ArcGIS API for Python is a Python package designed to work with web GIS. It allows you to work directly with data hosted on ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Enterprise. Previously in this book you have been using ArcPy, which is excellent for desktop work, but has limited capabilities when working with hosted data. The ArcGIS API for Python provides tools to do many of the same functions that ArcPy does, such as creating maps, geocoding, managing data, and geoprocessing, but using data that is hosted within your organization. In addition to this, you can use it to manage your organization’s data and ArcGIS Online account by managing users, groups, and items.

It is important to note that while all of the examples you will work through in this chapter are within ArcGIS Pro Notebooks, you don’t have to work through ArcGIS Pro. You could install a standalone environment with conda and access everything through a Jupyter notebook. This book will not...