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Not too long ago, the only way to store spatial data inside a database was to have a custom/binary format managed in code or by software…

Looking for additional tools for your coding toolbox? Here are 4 useful GIS developer tools you may or may not know about. Oh, they are also…

Sometimes you just want to run a few specific sections of your python code for testing. Then a few more. Next, all sections. Now run just…

When using sub-directories to store temp files, analysis outputs, or logs - a nice way to deal with the parent directory when moving the…

How easy/hard is it to extract a Map Service layer to Shapefile using Python? Not as hard as you would think. Is it legal? Not as easy as…

This post builds on the previous Extract a Map Service Layer to Shapefile using Python post. It seems as though many are interested in…

This post is inspired by the many emails I’ve received on the first two posts in this series. This article will address the most most…

A tiny Python script to show how to export ArcMap Layers to LYR Files with Python. Although it’s a short script, it shows how easy it is to…

An issue with multi-field unique keys (composite key) is that we can’t use them to setup a join or relate between objects (Feature Classes…

This post will discuss how to use ArcPy to Connect to SDE, create a new version, and switch to that version all inside a Python script. At…

ArcGIS Desktop’s ArcPy package gives us the ability to publish a map service from a map document (MXD) inside Python. This can be very…

As Python continues its dominance as the defacto scripting language for GIS software, we hit a point when one Python environment isn’t…

If we are using Python with ArcGIS, there are existing tools to append data. However, calling a Geoprocessing tool from Python doesn’t feel…