Posts Tagged ‘gis’

Python and GIS – Beyond ModelBuilder and PythonWin

This is a presentation I gave last February at the ESRI Petroleum User Group conference in Houston, TX. I just discovered SlideShare the other day.
Python And GIS – Beyond Modelbuilder And Pythonwin
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I’m published in ArcUser!

My (hopefully first of many) article on GIS and Python has been published in the Spring 2008 edition of ESRI’s ArcUser magazine. You can get the pdf here , and the code listings here .

Mapping point locations with Python and Microsoft Live Search Maps

This article was first published in the February 2008 issue of Python Magazine . It is being reproduced here with the permission of Marco Tabini and Associates .
Requirements
Python 2.4+
pyExcelerator module (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyexcelerator/ )
Anthony Tuininga’s ceODBC module (http://sourceforge.net/html/ceODBC.html )
John Machin’s xlrd module (http://www.lexicon.net/sjmachin/xlrd.htm )
Michael Foord’s cgiutils module (http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/cgiutils.html )
Lets face it, using Python, we can pull [...]

Some new maps: 8-Digit HUC Watersheds of Arkansas, Night Lights of Arkansas, and other assorted watershed maps

I finally found the time to finish some maps I had been working on for quite some time. Watersheds of Arkansas is one I had started back in 2003, and just never got a chance to finish. I’m very pleased with how it turned out though. The detail in the elevation is amazing. Took [...]

Processing lots of rasters

I had a post a few days ago about data, and how it made my happy, and how that was kinda pathetic. And that got me to thinking – What’s the largest raster I’ve processed?…..Hhhmmmm. Well, here it is:
I needed to make shaded relief maps for our site at work, like the one seen here. [...]

DRGs for Oklahoma

It’s kinda sad when you get excited over data. But this isn’t just data, it’s data that will make my life a little bit easier. My boss bought me the 7.5-minute DRGs (Digital Raster Graphics) for the entire State of Oklahoma on CD from Charttiff. I already have the Arkansas set, and having them [...]

Damn you ArcMap!

So ArcMap just crashed on me for like the 4,000th time while I was editing this VERY small, VERY simple vector dataset…..same as always for the last three builds of Arc8x….try to save edits, and it crashes! All I can do now is laugh, that’s all it’s worth….at least they apologize…here’s the error message [...]