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ArcPy and ArcGIS: Geospatial Analysis with Python

ArcPy and ArcGIS: Geospatial Analysis with Python

By : Silas Toms
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ArcPy and ArcGIS: Geospatial Analysis with Python

ArcPy and ArcGIS: Geospatial Analysis with Python

3.9 (11)
By: Silas Toms

Overview of this book

If you are a GIS student or professional who needs an understanding of how to use ArcPy to reduce repetitive tasks and perform analysis faster, this book is for you. It is also a valuable book for Python programmers who want to understand how to automate geospatial analyses.
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Chapter 7. Creating a Script Tool

Now that the basics of creating and executing ArcPy scripts have been covered, we need to take the next step and create re-useable Script tools. Creating Script tools will allow for greater code reuse, and will make it easy to create custom tools for other GIS analysts and customers. With a Python script backend or code, and a familiar ArcGIS tool frontend or user interface, the particulars of the code are hidden from the user; it becomes just another tool, albeit a tool that can save days and weeks of work.

This chapter will cover the following topics:

  • Adding parameters to scripts to accept input and produce output as required by the user
  • Creating a custom tool frontend and a custom toolbox
  • Setting the parameters of the tool frontend to allow it to pass arguments to the code backend

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