Table of Contents Introduction The Sort (Data Management) tool has limited functionality on a Basic and Standard licence, you can only sort by one field and cannot use a spatial sort. We saw in this blog post how we can use the Export Features (Conversion) tool to sort a feature class or table by multiple fields, unfortunately …
Sort (Data Management) on a Basic License with ArcPy Read More »
Table of Contents Introduction This became a pet project of mine back in 2017 where I first implemented using open source geospatial Python modules, osgeo and shapely. I then converted the workflow to ArcPy before Esri had brought out the Generate Points Along Lines tool. This third iteration of the workflow uses the Generate Points Along Lines tool …
Create Chainage Ticks Along a Line Using ArcPy and ArcGIS Pro Read More »
Table of Contents Introduction Not the most fanciest of tools but another one none-the-less that you can by-pass the Advanced license requirement and create your own tool using ArcPy. The Feature Envelope To Polygon (Data Management) is only available in ArcGIS Pro with an Advanced license. You can achieve quite similar to this tool using …
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Table of Contents Introduction The Table to Excel tool from the Conversion toolbox is a stalwart amongst Geoprocessing tools but it does have its limitations, namely; you cannot subset the records directly with the tool itself, you cannot subset the columns to be exported and the order that you want them in the spreadsheet, and you cannot sort the …
Extend the Functionality of the Table to Excel tool in ArcGIS Pro with ArcPy Read More »
Table of Contents Introduction Every week I put time towards answering questions on three main platforms; GIS StackExchange, Esri Communities, and Reddit. I go under the alias Clubdebambos on each of them. This week I helped g3odood on Reddit who was looking to remove duplicate records based on geometry, but needed to keep the records from the duplicate groups that had the …
Delete Records in ArcGIS Pro with Identical Geometries based on OID with ArcPy Read More »
Table of Contents Introduction I remember being thrown into the deep end when it came to using ArcPy. The manual tasks were racking up, the human errors in a long-winded workflow were being compounded by fatigue, and let me tell you, it took about 60-90 hours to complete one of the workflows, waiting for the …
The 5 Fundamental ArcPy Foundations You Need to Know! Read More »
Table of Contents Introduction A common task is to calculate the percentage overlap between a polygon feature class overlaying another polygon feature class. One general workflow is to use the (Pairwise) Intersect tool with the Join Attributes parameter set to Only feature IDs, add a field to store the percentage overlap attributes, join the underlay polygons to the output based on Feature IDs, and …
Polygon-Polygon Overlap Percentage in ArcGIS Pro with Pairwise Intersect and ArcPy Read More »
Table of Contents Introduction If you head over to the this page you will find a couple of custom toolboxes that we have been creating. These are great, you can access via ArcGIS Pro and use to perform their intended tasks. But what if you want to add these to chained workflows in a Python script? …
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Table of Contents Introduction Many years ago I came across the How to Create Sequential Numbers in a Field in ArcMap using Python in the Field Calculator from Esri Technical Support and I have used this as the basis for more complex numbering throughout the years for various different projects. Our workflow for this blog post will …
Sequentially Increment Numbered Values in ArcGIS Pro with ArcPy Read More »
Table of Contents Introduction You have made a selection based on attributes or location in ArcGIS Pro (or via a script or tool) and you want to set a definition query that only shows the selected records. Let’s walk through making that tool in ArcGIS Pro with ArcPy Custom Tool Syntax The syntax for the Definition Query from Selection …
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