Geography 465

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Geography 465

• Working with ArcGIS Tools
• and Environment Settings

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Toolbox defined
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Standard Toolboxes
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Parameters are specified using strings or objects
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Environment Settings

• Divided into five categories
• General
• Coverage
• Geodatabase
• Raster geodatabase
• Raster analysis
• Names are unique same constraints as tool names

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Environment Setting
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Environment Setting
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Save Environment Setting
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Save Environment Setting
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Complex Parameters - Objects

• For example
• Spatial references, value tables, weighted
  overlay tables, and remap tables
• Read/write properties
• Each tool documentation has the specification

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Complex Parameters - Objects
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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)

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Describe method
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Exercising the Geoprocessor and Python Scripting