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ArcPy and ArcGIS

You're reading from   ArcPy and ArcGIS Automating ArcGIS for Desktop and ArcGIS Online with Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787282513
Length 272 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Silas Toms Silas Toms
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Dara OBeirne Dara OBeirne
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Preface 1. Introduction to Python for ArcGIS FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating the First Python Script 3. ArcPy Cursors - Search, Insert, and Update 4. ArcPy Geometry Objects and Cursors 5. Creating a Script Tool 6. The arcpy.mapping Module 7. Advanced Analysis Topics 8. Introduction to ArcGIS Online 9. ArcPy and ArcGIS Online 10. ArcREST Python Package 11. ArcPy and ArcGIS Pro 12. ArcGIS API for Python

The ArcPy tools

After the import statements and the variable definitions, the next section of the script is where the analysis is executed. The same tools that we created in the model--the Select, Buffer, and Intersect tools--are included in this section. The same parameters that we supplied in the model are also included here: the inputs and outputs, plus the SQL statement in the Select tool, and the buffer distance in the Buffer tool.

The tool parameters are supplied to the tools in the script in the same order as they appear in the tool interfaces in the model. Here is the Select tool in the script:

arcpy.Select_analysis(Bus_Stops, Inbound71, "NAME = '71 IB' AND BUS_SIGNAG = 'Ferry Plaza'")  

It works like this: the arcpy module has a "method", or tool, called Select_analysis. This method, when called, requires three parameters: the input...

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