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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
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Index

Using the features module to work with feature layers

ArcGIS Online displays your geographic layers as a web layer. The following are the many types of web layers that can be published in ArcGIS Online: map image layer, imagery layer, tile layer, elevation layer, feature layer, scene layer, and table. Feature layers are the primary web layers of vector data that you will use in ArcGIS Online. They are the feature data that you publish to your web GIS and what you display on your web maps. Feature layers can be grouped into a collection called a feature layer collection. You have already worked with a feature layer in this chapter, when you published the CSV of farmers’ markets.

In this section, you will work with feature layers, querying a feature layer, editing the data in it, appending data to it, downloading attachments, downloading data, and deleting the feature layer.

Querying feature layers

You have seen how to search for data in Chapter 3, ArcGIS API for...