Book Image

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

Using the gis module to manage your GIS

Using the gis module, you can access and manage your folders, content, groups, and users. If you have any repetitive tasks and workflows, you can automate them as scripts. In this section, you are going to see how to search for data, access and manage groups, and access and manage users.

Searching for data, users, or groups

Creating a GIS object allows you access to many of the different classes and properties of the GIS object. To search for users, groups, or content, you will use the UserManager, GroupManager, or ContentManager classes through the users, groups, or content properties of the GIS object. This means that when searching for users, groups, or content, you will use similar syntax within the search() method. A search for data will use the ContentManager class as the content property of the GIS object, with the following syntax: gis.content.search().

The search() method will return a list of items based on the arguments...