geography 465 working with arcgis tools and environment settings
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Geography 465
Working with ArcGIS Tools
and Environment Settings
Toolbox defined
Standard Toolboxes
Parameters are specified using strings or objects
Environment SettingsDivided into five categories:- General- Coverage- Geodatabase- Raster geodatabase- Raster analysis
Names are unique; same constraints as tool names
Environment Setting
Environment Setting
Save Environment Setting
Save Environment Setting
Complex Parameters - Objects
For example:
Spatial references, value tables, weighted overlay tables, and remap tables
Read/write properties
Each tool documentation has the specification
Complex Parameters - Objects
Retrieving properties usingDescribe
# Workspace
dscWS = gp.Describe (“Seattle.mdb”)
# FeatureClass Properties
dscFC = gp.Describe (“Seattle.mdb\\Parcels”)
# DataSet Properties
dscFD = gp.Describe (“Seattle.mdb\\Census)
Describe method - 9.3
Exercising the Geoprocessor and
Python Scripting