Case Study: Advanced Map Automation

You may be familiar with data-driven pages in ArcGIS Desktop and using them to export multiple pages to PDF from one layout view to make a map book. In ArcGIS Pro, data-driven pages have been replaced with map series, which also use a single layout to export multiple pages to PDF. This chapter’s case study will see you using ArcPy to take a layout and create, add, and style layers to the layout, along with extracting data from those layers and adding that data as text to the layout. Then, you will export a map to PDF before moving to the next selected block group and completing the process again. Finally, you will merge all the PDFs into a single map book.

In Chapter 7, you learned how to automate map production using ArcPy. In this chapter’s case study, you will take what you have learned and extend that to create a set of maps displaying minority populations along a discontinued bus route. You will be highlighting block groups...