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Incorporating geoprocessing into your scripts

Incorporating geoprocessing into your scripts

From the course: Python Scripting Using the ArcGIS API for Python

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Incorporating geoprocessing into your scripts

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- [Instructor] Spatial analysis is the process of using geospatial data to analyze locations and patterns and relationships. It's what makes GIS software so powerful and we can do spatial analysis right here in ArcGIS Pro or in ArcGIS Online or Portal for ArcGIS. But we can also do geoprocessing through our Python scripts. So why bother scripting them? Well, geoprocessing steps can be automated, right? So they run while we're not around, but there are three main reasons for doing it. First, to ensure that every time we have to run this process, it's run exactly the same way. We don't have to depend on someone's memory, we can just go run the script again. Also, because we can take that script and run it on a scheduler, have it run over the weekend or when we're not at work, and then also the script serves to document the process. So if I need to go back six months from now and explain what I did or justify what I did, I can always show the script and it shows every single step that…

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