ArcGIS 10.5 introduced a new scripting language for the whole ArcGIS platform, as well as a Python API. Both are covered below. The Arcade scripting language Dynamic labeling and visualization has become a lot easier with the release of Arcade, a lightweight scripting...
ArcGIS Pro 1.4 is now here and it represents possibly its biggest releases since Esri first introduced it. This new version goes a long way to putting ArcGIS Pro on par with ArcMap and ArcCatalog for core functionality. Now that ArcGIS Pro has most of the core...
This blog post looks at how ArcPy is organized, in order to understand how Python deals with ArcGIS’ geospatial data and tools. Site packages vs modules ArcPy is a site package that allows for a close integration of ArcGIS and Python. Now, it is also often described...
Although Python is installed automatically with each version above ArcGIS Desktop 10, setting up a working python environment for using the ArcPy site package can be a little cumbersome. This blog post offers some help with setting up the right environment and...
Earlier this year Esri announced ArcGIS 10.5 was coming some time in December. Well your wait is almost over. We expect Esri will release this newest version of ArcGIS sometime within the next two weeks. So what can we expect in this new release? That is a good...
The Python window in ArcGIS Desktop and Pro is a good place to start for GIS analysts without any Python experience. This blog posts describes how you can take advantage of this feature when first learning Python scripting. Rather than starting with writing and...