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Generate unique ID upon creating a feature?
Looking for a way to generate a unique Global ID within a feature set when a new feature is created. For example, every time a sewer manhole is added, we need to generate a new unique Global ID that ...
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Measuring Script Writing Competency
I've been asked by my manager to come up with some sort of competency measure for an employees understanding of scripting/programming. Because I am a self taught programmer, I really don't have a ...
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Adding parameters to a category in a script tool
There is plenty of documentation on how to add parameters to a category in a python toolbox,
(See the bottom of ...
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ArcGIS script tool: Can you have an input parameter set to optional and have the tool work when an input is not provided?
I'm building a script tool that processes shapefiles ( GPS data collected on weekly basis). The tool is set up to take an input for each shapefile ( in this case Sewer, Storm, Sign). On some days, ...
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Select and zoom python script
I am attempting to make a simple select and zoom python script for my address points. Currently the script will complete successfully but will not select or zoom to the entered point. I am using two ...
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Difficulty converting standalone script to ArcGIS tool
As my title says, I am currently trying to make my (working) standalone script into an ArcGIS tool so I'm not the only person in my office that can use it. It essentially selects all the data within ...
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Beginning Arcpy: Asking for a quick review of my script
I cobbled this code together from ESRI documentation and stackexchange answers.
I tried to use SearchCursor(points, fields=fieldname) but I get this error:
TypeError: SearchCursor() got an ...
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Invalid topology error when running script
I am trying to run a python script and I get an invalid topology rule when I get to the feature to line tool. I am using arc 10.1 but I think the script was written in 10.0. I know it was built in ...
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Running python 2.6 and 2.7 in ArcGIS 10.0
I figure that there must be a way for me to run python 2.6 and 2.7 on the same computer. I've got a program that requires 2.7, but ArcGIS requires 2.6. I'd like to be able to run both programs at ...
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How to use QGIS Zonal Stats Plugin from Python Console?
I am using the Zonal Stats plugin in QGIS to extract raster statistics from overlaying polygons (I have shapefiles of species distribution and I want to extract environmental data from within each ...
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arcpy.sa.CostDistance from Python gives error about number of args but executes fine through Toolbox
I am attemping to call arcpy.sa.CostDistance to calculate the cost distance to a source point as well as generate the optional Cost Back link raster:
arcpy.sa.CostDistance("input", cost, "costDist", ...
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Error using con in Map Algebra in Python script
I am experiencing a painful problem in the middle of a Python script I am writing. When I get to a Map Algebra function, I have tried two different options and both return a different error.
At first ...
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ArcGIS Calling Wrong fme.exe When Python Script Converted To An ArcGIS Script Tool
I'm using this this bit of code to execute a FME Workbench file through a Python script ...
import os
os.system("fme.exe P:\\Mapping\\Scripts\\FME\\Easements_ROW_Extract_From_CAD.fmw")
However, ...
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How to export only certain columns to a CSV file in ArcGIS?
I've written a python script using arcpy which outputs a polygon feature class into a File Geodatabase. I have added a function to export the attributes to a separate CSV file. I am using the code ...
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Python loop Polygon to raster not working
I want to convert a large number of different shp polygons to raster in ArcGIS 10.1, using an existing field column "class" for the new raster classes. I am not very fluent in python but I thought ...
