Esri has fully embraced Python for ArcGIS and sees Python as the language that fulfills the needs of the user community. Previous versions of ArcGIS Desktop (ArcMap and ArcGIS Pro up to version 1.2) used Python 2. Since the ArcGIS Pro 1.3 release, ArcGIS Desktop has...
Projection A map projection is a method for taking the curved surface of the Earth (3D) and displaying it on a flat surface (2D). A projected coordinate system is always based on a geographic coordinate system. The below table shows a few key differences between a GCS...
Part of the Modelling Reality in 3D series Often times there are problems that simply have to be solved in 3 dimensions in order to attain the appropriate results. This doesn’t have to be scary though! Through this series of blog posts – Modelling Reality in 3D, we’re...
What’s new? With the migration towards 64-bit processing in ArcGIS Pro, some big changes have come to the Python environment as well. Python in ArcGIS Pro has been upgraded to version 3.4. All other ArcGIS products are still using version 2.7. Both versions of Python...
Software: ArcGIS Desktop Platform: Windows Problem: Broken links Answer: Often you may need to repair data sources and broken links in your MXDs. The idea of fixing this problem manually can be tedious, particularly when having data from multiple sources. ArcMap has...
Ever wanted to know if a certain field exists in a feature class or attribute table? This could be to either populate it with something if it does exist or create it first if it does not exist, then populate it. The easy steps below will show you how to check if a...
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