Archive for February, 2008
Executing ArcGIS Tools from Geoprocessing Scripts (Part 5)
Other posts in this series:
Scripting Your ArcGIS Geoprocessing Tasks (Part 1)
Scripting Your ArcGIS Geoprocessing Tasks with Cursors (Part 2)
More ArcGIS Geoprocessing Concepts – Enumeration Objects (Part 3)
Obtaining Descriptive Information About GIS Datasets with ArcGIS Geoprocessing Objects (Part 4)
Introduction
In this final post in our five part series on scripting your geoprocessing tasks in ArcGIS we will take [...]
Obtaining Descriptive Information About GIS Datasets with ArcGIS Geoprocessing Objects (Part 4)
Other posts in this series:
Scripting Your ArcGIS Geoprocessing Tasks (Part 1)
Scripting Your ArcGIS Geoprocessing Tasks with Cursors (Part 2)
More ArcGIS Geoprocessing Concepts – Enumeration Objects (Part 3)
The arcgisscripting/GpDispatch object contains a Describe method that can be used to return an object that describes data. The Describe method takes a single argument which is a pointer to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )For Sale: GISYellowPages.com
GISYellowpages.com is For Sale. For more information please contact Bob Long at blong1225@yahoo.com.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Free GIS Books!
I’m cleaning out my library and have some free GIS books if anyone is interested. Some of them are really old, but if you’re interested and willing to pay the shipping costs (U.S. only) I’ll be happy to send them to you. First come first serve. Send an email to eric at geospatialtraining.com if you’re [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Where Does Data in AutoCAD Drawings Come From?
Today we’re featuring a guest post from Tripp Corbin of Keck & Wood. Keck & Wood is a GeoSpatial Training Services business partner, and Tripp and his team created the instructor led and e-learning course ”Using AutoCAD Data in ArcGIS“. This course explains the .dwg format and how it can be integrated into standard ESRI data formats [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )More ArcGIS Geoprocessing Concepts – Enumeration Objects (Part 3)
Other posts in this series on scripting your ArcGIS geoprocessing tasks:
Scripting Your ArcGIS Geoprocessing Tasks (Part 1)
Scripting Your ArcGIS Geoprocessing Tasks with Cursors (Part 2)
We all make lists in our daily lives. Perhaps we create a grocery or shopping list, a “to do” list, a list of goals, or wish lists. Whatever the case may be [...]
Mapping Saudi Oil Production with Google Earth
Just wanted to pass along a link to an interesting blog that I ran across. Satellite O’er the Desert, the unofficial web companion to the book Twilight in the Desert by Matt Simmons.
The blogs purpose according to the author:
“This blog presents satellite imagery and analysis pertinent to the energy infrastructure of Saudi Arabia. It uses [...]
Scripting Your ArcGIS Geoprocessing Tasks with Cursors (Part 2)
In our last post we gave an overview of some basic ArcGIS geoprocessing concepts. The next few posts will cover the functional groupings of geoprocessing objects, and we’ll start with the cursor objects which are displayed in an orange color on the Geoprocessing Object Model Diagram.
In database terms a cursor refers to a subset of records that [...]
Scripting Your ArcGIS Geoprocessing Tasks (Part 1)
This week I’ll be starting a new series of posts covering the use of scripting for the automation of ArcGIS geoprocessing tasks. In particular we’ll be covering the use of the Python language to automate many of your common tasks. In this first post we’ll take a look at the Geoprocessor Object Model Diagram. Before you [...]
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