The Cartographic Information Model (CIM) is a map content specification for cartographic descriptions of GIS datasets and Project components in ArcGIS Pro. Essentially, it is the JSON that represents specifications for maps, scenes, layouts, layers, symbols, and styles in ArcGIS Pro. The best way to view these JSON specification is to save an element to […]
Updating Single Symbology in ArcGIS Pro with Python CIM Access Read More »
Creating an Item Categories Schema with the ArcGIS API for Python (API) can be somewhat difficult to get your head around, hopefully this blog post will help with simplifying the process. In a nutshell, an Item Categories Schema enables an organization to categorize their items thematically. There can be 3 levels to a Category; the
Categories Schema for ArcGIS Online Items with the ArcGIS API for Python Read More »
The Polygon to Line (Data Management) tool is only available in ArcGIS Pro with an Advanced license. You can check out the Esri documentation for this tool here. For now, we will omit the optional identifying neighbouring information and will revisit in the future. A little about this tool; for each input polygon, the boundary
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I was recreating the ArcPy Feature Vertices to Points tool using GeoPandas and Shapely and I was unimpressed with the length of time it took to perform against its ArcPy counterpart when it came to processing dangles. However, that was until I applied a spatial index to the workflow, which rapidly sped up matters. Rapidly
Geopandas, The difference a Spatial Index Makes! Read More »
If you head over to the ArcPy page you will find a couple of custom toolboxes that we have been creating. These are great, you can access via ArcGIS Pro and use to perform their intended tasks. But what if you want to add these to chained workflows in a Python script? There’s a very
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You may come across a couple of scenarios…1. You have published a hosted feature service to ArcGIS Online (AGOL) with domains and the dataset has matured with edits. You do not want unshare, export, download, and republish to overwrite the feature service but you need to update the split/merge policy to make edits easier and
The Sort (Data Management) tool has limited functionality on a Basic and Standard licence, you can only sort by one field and cannot use a spatial sort. We saw in this blog post how we can use the Export Features (Conversion) tool to sort a feature class or table by multiple fields, unfortunately that Export
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The Create Random Points (Data Management) tool is available with an Advanced license or on a Basic or Standard license if you have 3D Analyst or Spatial Analyst. In this post we will look at creating the tool for use with a Basic license. We’ll keep it simple for now and just generate the desired
Create Random Points (Data Management) on a Basic License with ArcPy Read More »
I remember being thrown into the deep end when it came to using ArcPy. The manual tasks were racking up, the human errors in a long-winded workflow were being compounded by fatigue, and let me tell you, it took about 60-90 hours to complete one of the workflows, waiting for the output from one geoprocessing
5 Fundamental Foundations for Enhancing your ArcPy Adventure Read More »
This became a pet project of mine back in 2017 where I first implemented using open source geospatial Python modules, osgeo and shapely. I then converted the workflow to ArcPy before Esri had brought out the Generate Points Along Lines tool. This third iteration of the workflow uses the Generate Points Along Lines tool to
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