Mapping the 2026 Wildfire Season in ArcGIS Pro with Living Atlas Data
On the afternoon of August 1, three fires broke out around Spokane, Washington. By Sunday morning the Washington State Emergency Operations Center estimated about 700 structures had been destroyed and more than 65,000 people were under evacuation orders....
5 Reasons to Learn Python with ArcGIS Pro
Python is a powerful and versatile programming language that has become an integral part of modern Geographic Information Systems (GIS). ArcGIS Pro embraces Python as a core tool for automating workflows, performing complex analyses, and enhancing productivity. If...
Tutorial: Catalog and Find Geospatial Data with Python
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...
Tutorial: Adding Data to a Map in ArcGIS Pro with Python
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...
