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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

Exercise: Turning scripts into tools

Now that you are familiar with the steps to turn a script into a script tool, and with how the dialog box is used to set up a script tool in ArcGIS Pro, it is time to create a script tool. In this section, you will work through an exercise in which you will convert a script from a previous chapter into a script tool. You will work through all the steps from the previous section to create a script tool you can share within your organization.

The script tool you will create will be from CreateCensusTableInsertRows.ipynb from Chapter 4, The Data Access Module and Cursors. In this Notebook, you took a census CSV, extracted the data you needed from it, inserted that data into a table, and then joined that table to the corresponding census geography.

You will use it to create a script tool that can be run by anyone in your organization, the result being a feature class of the simplified Hispanic/race data from the census. This tool will work...