{"id":235,"date":"2023-04-16T15:52:34","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T20:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-193\/?p=235"},"modified":"2023-04-16T15:52:48","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T20:52:48","slug":"nair-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-293\/2023\/04\/16\/nair-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Nair &#8211; Week 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Chapter 5:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This chapter introduces ArcPy and geoprocessing using Python<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I began with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">setting up my workspace<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> which I had done before for GIS 191\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The textbook also mentioned detailed changes to the environment like the env size, XY tolerance, etc.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The chapter mentioned that the key to getting the tool to run right is to get the parameters right.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Usually, they are just: input datasets, tool features, and output datasets\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Optional parameters are enclosed in {}\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I ran the Clip feature using the syntax instructions given in the textbook.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Chapter 6:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0This chapter was all about exploring spatial data\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This chapter introduced some new functions in ArcPy, and also how to perform batch processing more efficiently.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ArcPy has list functions that include: ListFields(), ListIndexes, ListDatasets(), ListWorkspaces(), and ListVersions()<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I also noticed that some of the function names had been changed in ArcGIS Pro when compared to the textbook.\\<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The chapter also mentioned some built-in functions for lists that were mentioned in Chapter 4 before like len(returns the length of the list), sort(sorts the list), etc.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter 5:\u00a0 This chapter introduces ArcPy and geoprocessing using Python I began with setting up my workspace which I had done before for GIS 191\u00a0 The textbook also mentioned detailed changes to the environment like the env size, XY tolerance, <span class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-293\/2023\/04\/16\/nair-week\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2184,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-293\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-293\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-293\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-293\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2184"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-293\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-293\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-293\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-293\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-293\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-293\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}