Today’s blog post is inspired by a question posed on Esri Communities. The question asks how to export hosted feature layers using only the ArcGIS API for Python, and specifically states not to use ArcPy. The usual method to extract data from ArcGIS Online is to export an item (a feature service) to a file …
Why create this workflow… Every week I put time towards answering questions on three main platforms; GIS StackExchange, Esri Communities, and Reddit. I go under the alias Clubdebambos on each of them. This week I helped g3odood on Reddit who was looking to remove duplicate records based on geometry, but needed to keep the records …
Delete Identical Geometries based on OID with ArcPy & ArcGIS Pro Read More »
If you are interested in learning ArcPy, check out this course. This tool will allow you to create a new linear feature class for the lines or append into the existing linear feature class. Let’s dive straight in. We import the ArcPy module. We have a few user inputs to consider as per below. We …
Create Line from Point to Nearest Point on a Line in ArcGIS Pro with ArcPy Read More »
In this blog post we will assess the options for extracting layers and tables from an ArcGIS Online Feature Service to Feature Classes and Tables in a File Geodatabase. We will use ArcPy, the ArcGIS API for Python, and a combination of both. If you are interested in learning ArcPy, then check out this course! …
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ArcGIS Pro 3.2 added three new parameters to the Search Cursor (and Update Cursor) with ArcPy. These parameters are named spatial_filter, spatial_relationship, and search_order. Here, we will discuss the first two. The search_order parameter can only be used with an enterprise geodatabase. Check out the documentation here. As of ArcGIS Pro 3.2, the latest syntax …
Using the Search Cursor Spatial Filter Parameter with ArcPy Read More »
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ArcPy for Data Management and Geoprocessing with ArcGIS Pro: Udemy Course Read More »
Spatial Thoughts on LinkedIn posted the following challenge…Can you take a dataset of a river centerline and varying lengths of line transects and make them exactly the same length? using any tool or platform of choice. This post uses ArcPy with ArcGIS Pro and can be used with a Basic license. Here is a link …
Fix Transect Line Geometries to Exact Dimensions – A Spatial Thoughts Challenge Read More »
Many years ago I came across the How to Create Sequential Numbers in a Field in ArcMap using Python in the Field Calculator from Esri Technical Support and I have used this as the basis for more complex numbering throughout the years for various different projects. Our workflow for this blog post will use a …
ArcGIS Pro Sequentially Increment Numbered Values with ArcPy 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 …
Polygon To Line (Data Management) on a Basic License with ArcPy 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 …
How to Use Custom Tools in a Python Script with ArcPy Read More »
