Python For ArcGIS
This book introduces Python scripting for geographic information science (GIS) workflow optimization using ArcGIS. It builds essential programming skills for automating GIS analysis. Over 200 sample Python scripts and 175 classroom-tested exercises reinforce the learning objectives. Readers will learn to: - Write and run Python in the ArcGIS Python Window, the PythonWin IDE, and the PyScripter IDE - Work with Python syntax and data types - Call ArcToolbox tools, batch process GIS datasets, and manipulate map documents using the arcpy package - Read and modify proprietary and ASCII text GIS data - Parse HTML web pages and KML datasets - Create Web pages and fetch GIS data from Web sources. - Build user-interfaces with the native Python file dialog toolkit or the ArcGIS Script tools and PyToolboxes Python for ArcGIS is designed as a primary textbook for advanced-level students in GIS. Researchers, government specialists and professionals working in GIS will also find this book useful as a reference
Year: 2016
Author: Laura Tateossian
Genre and themes: Programming
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 978-3319183978
English language
Format: PDF
Quality: Publishing layout or text (eBook)
Interactive contents: Yes
Number of pages: 556
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Contents 1 Introduction ......... 1 2 Beginning Python ...... 13 3 Basic Data Types: Numbers and Strings ...... 37 4 Basic Data Types: Lists and Tuples ............... 59 5 ArcGIS and Python . 77 6 Calling Tools with Arcpy .......... 95 7 Getting User Input ....... 119 8 Controlling Flow ....... 133 9 Decision-Making and Describing Data ......... 141 10 Repetition: Looping for Geoprocessing ........ 171 11 Batch Geoprocessing ............... 187 12 Additional Looping Functions ......... 209 13 Debugging ............ 223 14 Error Handling .... 241 15 User-Defined Functions ...... 261 16 User-Defined Modules ............ 291 17 Reading and Writing with Cursors ........ 309 18 Dictionaries .......... 335 19 Reading and Writing Text Files ............ 357 20 Working with HTML and KML ............ 385 21 Classes .................. 415 22 User Interfaces for File and Folder Selection .......... 435 23 ArcGIS Python GUIs ........... 449 24 Mapping Module . 505 Index ........... 531
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