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
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 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
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
Python ArcPy Field Name List Frequently, especially when using cursors, I need to quickly get a list of field names not including the ObjectID nor Geometry fields. I accomplish this by using a quick shorthand function. fields_list
Python ArcGIS to Pandas Data Frame With the release of ArcGIS 10.4, a few packages included have come to my attention. While numpy has been in there for quite some time, now scipy and pandas are now included.
Python Installing Python Packages on an ArcGIS Python Installation It is little secret I use a ton of Python to get tasks in ArcGIS done. If serious about getting volumes of data processed with ArcGIS, Python is far and above the way
grocery Grocery Home Delivery with ArcGIS Most of the time my work related blog posts are much more on the side of technical and less on the side of marketing. This particular post likely ebbs more toward the latter
ArcGIS Cleanse Feature Class Names in Python Today I ran across a problem with what should be a simple solution, but took me the better part of the morning to figure out...primarily because I was not familiar enough with
ArcGIS The Feature Class in ArcGIS A feature class is a single geometry with an attribute table...period. True, it should also have a spatial reference, and likely needs one to function correctly. Still, in the simplest form, all
ArcGIS Create List of Unique Table Values using Data Access Module A while back I posted a slightly more verbose solution for this. Since then two things have changed. First, I have used Python a LOT more and understand how to use sets, lists
ArcGIS Lessons Learned and Ideas for Python Toolbox Coding Note: A colleague asked for a ready to run PyScripter template implementing these suggestions. This template can now be found on GitHub at: https://github.com/knu2xs/python-toolbox-template. Instructions for using PyScripter to
ArcGIS SDE Workspace Creation Toolbox As an instructor teaching ArcGIS Server classes, I frequently have the need to quickly set up new enterprise geodatabases for teaching demonstrations. To streamline this process, I recently created an ArcGIS Python Toolbox
ArcGIS Set Up PyScripter to Create ArcGIS Python Toolboxes For the last year or so, my Python IDE of choice has been PyScripter. Recently I have started to create ArcGIS Python Toolboxes. PyScripter is still my editor of choice for this task.
ArcGIS Create Custom GPX to Features Tool for Garmin Data Collection 26 Jan 2013 Update: The developer who maintains this tool discovered this post last week, got in touch and asked for a sample GPX file. He implemented a fix to recognize the <
ArcGIS Download Raster Tiles from an Image Service in ArcMap Image services created from mosaic datasets can be set up to enable downloading of individual tiles through client applications including ArcMap, web mapping applications and custom ArcGIS Runtime applications. In ArcMap individual tiles
ArcGIS Publish a Cached Map to ArcGIS.com Without Burning Credits Publishing a map to ArcGIS.com, typically it is preferable to cache the map for faster rendering and performance. However, the larger the spatial extent, the more credits will be used to create
ArcGIS Create Enterprise Geodatabase from XML Workspace document Note: I have updated this toolbox to include more functionality, ported it to a Python Toolbox, and created a GitHub repository for it. Teaching classes frequently necessitates quickly creating and setting up enterprise