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Mastering Geospatial Analysis with Python
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Mastering Geospatial Analysis with Python

by Silas Toms, Paul Crickard, Eric van Rees
April 2018
Beginner to intermediate
440 pages
11h 36m
English
Packt Publishing
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Introducing the ArcGIS API for Python and ArcGIS Online

Esri, the geospatial software company known for its ArcGIS platform, adopted and integrated Python into their ArcGIS desktop software, as well as its successor ArcGIS Pro. The first Python site package developed by Esri was the ArcPy site package, which is a collection of Python modules that offers all existing, as well as extended, ArcMap and ArcGIS Pro functionality. Python can now be used as a scripting and programming language to automate repetitive tasks that involve a lot of interaction with the Graphical User Interface (GUI). With ArcPy, these tasks could be carried out through a Python script, add-on, or toolbox.

Python was introduced successfully with ArcGIS desktop, while GIS ...

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