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Locating the geoprocessing capabilities in the ArcGIS API

Locating the geoprocessing capabilities in the ArcGIS API

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

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Locating the geoprocessing capabilities in the ArcGIS API

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- [Instructor] Geoprocessing is anything you do to geospatial data, including analysis and data manipulation, like adding columns and deleting columns. Those of you who are ArcGIS users will be familiar with many of the hundreds of tools that exist in ArcGIS Toolbox. The ArcGIS API also has a set of geoprocessing tools that accesses the kind of functionality we're used to seeing in ArcGIS Online and Portal for ArcGIS. The ArcGIS API also has a set of geoprocessing tools that access the kinds of functionality we're used to seeing in ArcGIS Online and Portal for ArcGIS. So here I'm in ArcGIS Online, and I'm talking about these analysis tools over here. So the toolbox tools from Pro come from ArcPy. These online analysis tools come from the ArcGIS API for Python. First, I want to make it clear that I can certainly access all of the ArcGIS Pro geoprocessing tools from within Python as long as I have a license for ArcGIS Pro. These tools are all available through the ArcPy library. So I…

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