In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a custom basemap with ArcGIS Pro and add it to the default basemap gallery in Pro so you can use it for other projects. There are two ways to do this. First, we create an empty basemap and add data to it. Next, we’ll...
Do you feel like you spend too much time on reordering and adjusting transparency of layers just to show overlapping features, such as hillshade? If this issue is still haunting you, then you must not have moved on to ArcGIS Pro or the new Map Viewer, yet, where you...
The new Map Viewer in ArcGIS Online has cranked up the power of visualization with a Smart Mapping turbocharge. Smart Mapping techniques were integrated into the ArcGIS Online (AGOL) platform in 2015, which means some techniques were available for use with Map Viewer...
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to catalog data using Python. Specifically, we’ll use the arcpy and os modules to move through a directory tree to catalog and find data. The os module is used to interact with your operating system, move through a directory and find...
In this tutorial, you’ll learn multiple ways to add data to a map using Python. Specifically, we’ll add single shapefile feature classes and folders containing shapefile feature classes to the map using both arcpy and the os module. There are various ways to add data...
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a script tool in ArcGIS Pro from a standalone Python script. A script tool is a Python script file that can be run as a geoprocessing tool. This means you only have to worry about setting the right parameters of the tool...