Nicholas Wagner - GIS Blog

 Module 5: Exploring & Manipulating Data This weeks module was a complex mix of subjects, including search cursors, lists and dictionaries, and checking/validating a variety of data. 1 My biggest issue with this assignment ( an issue that took 3 hours) was creating the line - print("Copying", (fcdesc.basename), "-") . This line printed all of the layer names that we copied. And  I just couldn’t figure it out fore some reason, I was able to find another student work, but theirs did not work for mine. After their example did get me on the right track though, and after moving things around I was able to figure it out. Another was the SearchCursor, getting it to print all three fields. That I just played around with some code from the examples till it worked.  The images below are the product of my code, a list of all the actions run, and all the items copied, statistics of certain locations, and the created dictionary. 

 Module 4: Geoprocessing This weeks was both very simple, and very complex. While I had some problems, I was able to work my way around them. This week we used Python and GIS models to run geoprocessing tools. The screenshot bellow shows the code being used to add XY coordinate fields to my data, a 1,000 meter buffer zone, and then merging the buffers together.