Friday, June 20, 2014

GIS Programming Module 5 - Geoprocessing with Python

In this week's GIS Programming lab, we learned a lot about using Python to access the ArcMap tools.
This week was something of a watershed for me, because the help pages for the tools makes  much more sense than it did before, and I am also more comfortable with the syntax of modules and functions, in their operation as toolboxes and tools.  Python, as it works with ArcGIS, is falling into place.

In the figure above, the results are shown for the script this week: the messages for running the tools.  
Our task was to first assign XY coordinates to a point shapefile, then buffer it, then dissolve the buffer using the Dissolve tool in Data Management.

The summary of my process for writing this script can be accessed at this link:.

Process Notes for Module 5

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