COVID Office Evolution For a long time I resisted creating a home office. We live in an 1,800 square foot house built in 1924. About a year ago, we moved the boys into the same
Covid Geography Matters...Again When the world was big, geography mattered a whole lot. As travel became easier, trade almost trivial, and the world became smaller, geographic interest waned. Now, in the midst of a pandemic, suddenly geography matters a lot...again.
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Python Cloning ArcGIS Conda Environments ArcGIS Pro, when initially released, included an incredibly powerful capability, the included Python environment is a Conda environment. This unlocks the extremely powerful and vast universe of installable packages available through Conda. Further,
Python Create `arcgis` Conda Environment with a Batch File Although first and foremost a Geographer, after transitioning to the GeoAI Business Development Team at Esri, now I spend most of my time in Jupyter Lab. Although not altogther difficult, if following best
Python Automatically Convert to Esri Spatially Enabled Dataframe I frequnetly need a Spatially Enabled Dataframe from a variety of sources, and these sources frequently change. Guessing there is a very good chance I am not the only one doing this - here is my solution to this as a Gist you are more than welcome to use.
Python Relative Module Imports in an ArcGIS Python Toolbox The idea of ArcGIS Python toolboxes really appeals to me. I really like them. As is frequently the case in life, the devil is in the details. Python Toolboxes have plenty of interesting
iPython Layer to Spatially Enabled DataFrame As I continue to dive deeper and deeper into the intersection of Geography and Artifical Intelligence - what we are calling GeoAI, I find myself doing a lot of data work. This means
Python Purge Scratch GeoDatabase In a lot of the scripts I write, especially data preparation pipelines, I use the scratch Geodatabase - a lot. At the end of these pipelines, especially when testing and re-running the processes
whitewater Outfitting a Pyranha 9R as a C1 Kaykers have it so easy. Outfitting a boat consists of shoving a few slivers of foam in for hip blocks, adjusting the bulkhead and backhand, and hitting it. It takes, at most, about
Python API ArcGIS-ML-Docker Easily 80 percent of my time at work is now spent in ArcGIS Python API, either the stable branch, or much of the time, the daily build. Frequently I switch between these environments,
arcpy Use ArcPy to Match Spatial Reference Frequently when performing data preparation or analysis in GIS the spatial reference or projections need to be modified to match. Also, much of the time the data needs to be modified to match
Python API ArcGIS Python Geometry from Shapely The ArcGIS Python API Geometry object includes the capability to export the geometry to a Shapely Geometry object, but not the capability to create a new ArcGIS Geometry object from a Shapely object.
Python API Loading a Previously Saved SpatialDataFrame from CSV Increasingly I find myself working with SpatialDataFrames for analysis in Jupyter Notebooks in Python. Much of the time the easiest way to save results for future work is saving to a CSV file.
Python Creating a SpatialDataFrame from a Web GIS Item The relatively recent addition of the SpatialDataFrame object to the ArcGIS Python API was a gigantic leap forward. The SpatialDataFrame marries the common data structure used for data munging and data science, the
Python Keeping the ArcGIS Python API with ArcGIS Pro Current If you are running the ArcGIS Python API in a virgin Conda environment, this very likely does not apply to you. If you are running the ArcGIS Python API in the Python environment
Pandas Filter NotNull Geometries in an ArcGIS SpatialDataFrame When working with Pandas DataFrames it is fairly common to filter out records with null values using the notnull Pandas function. This however, does not work with the geometry column created when loading
CSV to SpatialDataFrame "Why don't I just send you a sample of our data, and see what you can do with it?" As a Solution Engineer, I have heard these words more times than
Python PyCharm Debugging - Stop on Unhandled Exceptions One of the most useful features of PyCharm is the robust debugging capabilities, especially the ability to set it to stop during debugging when encountering an unhandled exception. Enabling this, I frequently have
ArcGIS ArcGIS Python Reproject Geometry Object List Frequently I have a large list of geometry objects I need to get reprojected for analysis. A while back I discovered the reprojectAs method of the arcpy.Geometry object. While useful, I still
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Conda ArcGIS Pro + Conda + Jupyter Notebook + ArcGIS Python API ArcGIS Pro, like it's predecessor ArcMap, installs Python tightly integrated with the software. ArcGIS Pro 1.4 installs Python 3.5 complete with the Conda package management system. The environment ArcGIS Pro uses
Python ArcGIS Chunk Data for Analysis Using Python Frequently I have to process very large datasets so large my computer with a quad core i7 with 20GB of RAM cannot handle it. The solution is to chunk the analysis. While there
