Programming ArcGIS with Python Cookbook : Over 85 Hands-On Recipes to Teach You How to Automate Your ArcGIS for Desktop Geoprocessing Tasks Using Python.

Cover -- Copyright -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Fundamentals of the Python Language for ArcGIS -- Using IDLE for Python script development -- Using the ArcGIS Python window -- Python language fundamentals -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Managing Map Documents and Layers -- Introduction -- Referencing the current map document -- Referencing map documents on a disk -- Getting a list of layers in a map document -- Restricting the list of layers -- Zooming in to selected features -- Changing the map extent -- Adding layers to a map document -- Inserting layers into a map document -- Updating layer symbology -- Updating layer properties -- Working with time-enabled layers in a data frame -- Chapter 3: Finding and Fixing Broken Data Links -- Introduction -- Finding broken data sources in your map document and layer files -- Fixing broken data sources with MapDocument. -- findAndReplaceWorkspacePaths() -- Fixing broken data sources with MapDocument.replaceWorkspaces() -- Fixing individual layer and table objects with replaceDataSource() -- Finding broken data sources in all map documents in a folder -- Chapter 4: Automating Map Production and Printing -- Introduction -- Creating a list of layout elements -- Assigning a unique name to layout elements -- Restricting the layout elements returned by ListLayoutElements() -- Updating the properties of layout elements -- Getting a list of available printers -- Printing maps with PrintMap() -- Exporting a map to a PDF file -- Exporting a map to an image file -- Exporting a report -- Building a map book with Data Driven Pages and ArcPy mapping -- Publishing a map document to an ArcGIS Server service -- Chapter 5: Executing Geoprocessing Tools from Scripts -- Introduction -- Finding geoprocessing tools.

Retrieving a toolbox alias -- Executing geoprocessing tools from a script -- Using the output of a tool as an input to another tool -- Chapter 6: Creating Custom Geoprocessing Tools -- Introduction -- Creating a custom geoprocessing tool -- Creating a Python toolbox -- Chapter 7: Querying and Selecting Data -- Introduction -- Constructing a proper attribute query syntax -- Creating feature layers and table views -- Selecting features and rows with the Select Layer by Attribute tool -- Selecting features with the Select by Location tool -- Combining a spatial and attribute query with the Select by Location tool -- Chapter 8: Using the ArcPy Data Access Module with Feature Classes and Tables -- Introduction -- Retrieving features from a feature class with SearchCursor -- Filtering records with a where clause -- Improving cursor performance with geometry tokens -- Inserting rows with InsertCursor -- Updating rows with UpdateCursor -- Deleting rows with UpdateCursor -- Inserting and updating rows inside an edit session -- Reading geometry from a feature class -- Using Walk() to navigate directories -- Chapter 9: Listing and Describing GIS Data -- Introduction -- Working with the ArcPy list functions -- Getting a list of fields in a feature class or table -- Using the Describe() function to return descriptive information about a feature class -- Using the Describe() function to return descriptive information about a raster image -- Chapter 10: Customizing the ArcGIS Interface with Add-ins -- Introduction -- Downloading and installing the Python Add-in Wizard -- Creating a button add-in and using the Python add-ins module -- Installing and testing an add-in -- Creating a tool add-in -- Chapter 11: Error Handling and Troubleshooting -- Introduction -- Exploring the default Python error message.

Adding Python exception handling structures (try/except/else) -- Retrieving tool messages with GetMessages() -- Filtering tool messages by the level of severity -- Testing for and responding to specific error messages -- Chapter 12: Using Python for Advanced ArcGIS -- Introduction -- Getting started with the ArcGIS REST API -- Making HTTP requests and parsing the response with Python -- Getting layer information with the ArcGIS REST API and Python -- Exporting a map with the ArcGIS REST API and Python -- Querying a map service with the ArcGIS REST API and Python -- Geocoding with the Esri World Geocoding Service -- Using FieldMap and FieldMappings -- Using a ValueTable to provide multivalue input to a tool -- Chapter 13: Using Python with ArcGIS Pro -- Introduction -- Using the new Python window in ArcGIS Pro -- Coding differences between ArcGIS for Desktop and ArcGIS Pro -- Installing Python for ArcGIS Pro -- Converting ArcGIS for Desktop Python code to ArcGIS Pro -- Appendix A: Automating Python Scripts -- Introduction -- Running Python scripts from the command line -- Using sys.argv[ ] to capture command-line input -- Adding Python scripts to batch files -- Scheduling batch files to run at prescribed times -- Appendix B: Five Python Recipes Every GIS Programmer Should Know -- Introduction -- Reading data from a delimited text file -- Sending e-mails -- Retrieving files from an FTP server -- Creating ZIP files -- Reading XML files -- Index.

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