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Building Map Books in ArcGIS

July 25, 2012. Building Map Books in ArcGIS. Jeff Barrette Tom Bole. Map automation options. Data Driven Pages (DDP) User interface approach to building map pages arcpy.mapping Scripting framework for automating map output Can be used to extend DDP. Types of Map Books.

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Building Map Books in ArcGIS

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  1. July 25, 2012 Building Map Books in ArcGIS Jeff Barrette Tom Bole

  2. Map automation options • Data Driven Pages (DDP) • User interface approach to building map pages • arcpy.mapping • Scripting framework for automating map output • Can be used to extend DDP

  3. Types of Map Books • Collection of map pages • Plus additional pages like: • titles, TOC, index pages, etc. • Most common are reference map books • series of pages that iterate across a geographic area • reference grid based, strip maps, or feature based Use DDP and/or arcpy.mapping

  4. Types of Map Books (cont.) • Thematic map books • all pages have the same extent • each page shows unique layers arcpy.mapping only

  5. Types of Map Books (cont.) • Temporal map books • mapping time series data • each page shows unique data and time arcpy.mapping only

  6. Data Driven Pages • Index layer • Single map layout • Pages based on feature extents • Other map updates • Dynamic legends, text, and pictures

  7. Data Driven Pages Tom Bole

  8. What is arcpy.mapping? • A map scripting environment introduced at 10.0 • Python mapping module that is part of the ArcPy site-package • An API that allows users to: • manage map documents, layer files, and their contents • find a layer with data source X and replace with Y • update a layer’s symbology in many MXDs • generate reports that lists document information • data sources, broken layers, spatial reference info, etc. • Automate the exporting and printing of map documents • Automate map production and create map books • extend Data Driven Pages capabilities

  9. arcpy.mapping example - appending PDFs newPDF = arcpy.mapping.PDFDocumentCreate( “C:/project/newpdf.pdf”) newPDF.appendPages(“C:/project/indexpage.pdf”) newPDF.appendPages(“C:/project/mappages.pdf”) newPDF.appendPages(“C:/project/indexpages.pdf”) newPDF.saveAndClose()

  10. Arcpy.mapping Jeff Barrette

  11. Resources • Desktop help: • Mapping/Page layouts • Arcpy.mapping (100’s of samples) • ArcGIS Online: • arcpy.mapping / Map Automation group • Map Automation Forum • Training – short web courses • Using ArcMap in ArcGIS Desktop 10 • Basics of Python (for ArcGIS 10) • Python Scripting for Map Automation in ArcGIS 10

  12. Related sessions Wednesday • 3:45-4:15 – Best Practices for Authoring Effective Web Maps (demo theater) Thursday • 8:30-9:45 – Introduction to arcpy.mapping (Room 8) • 8:30-9:45 – Supporting High-Quality Printing in Web Applications for ArcGIS 10.1 for Server (Room 7) • 10:15-11:30 – Beyond the basics of arcpy.mapping (Room 7)

  13. Thank you for attending • Have fun at UC2012 • Open for Questions • Please fill out the evaluation: • www.esri.com/ucsessionsurveys • First Offering ID: 719 • Second Offering ID: 863

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