Information sharing for LA County GIS users
One of the sticking points of ArcGIS Pro is its project-based nature and difficulty accessing data sources that aren’t already included in the project. This has been somewhat made easier with the “Favorites” section of the Catalog View that was…
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Creating symbols for field values is standard GIS, creating separate layers based on field values is not. Having had to create separate layers from unique values in a field for map services and such, I created a tool that will…
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The following code sample creates backup copies of feature classes (dataList) to a local file geodatabase for a set amount of days (backUpDays). The code should be set to run on a nightly schedule using Windows Task Scheduler. This is…
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This code sample iterates through features that are within a boundary in order to assign a unique identifier. In this case, parcels (based on the centroid) are assigned the grid number they’re in along with a sequential number. This creates…
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Sample Python code to randomly disperse overlapping points within a polygon. Particularly useful when multiple geocoded points are matched at the same location, which become “stacked”. For this example, the requirements are that the address geocoded points must be on…
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