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Desktop Mapping: Building Map Books

Learn about Desktop Mapping and Building Map Books using arcpy.mapping for automating map output and extending Data Driven Pages (DDP) capabilities. Discover how to create thematic and temporal map books, manage map documents, update layers, and automate map production.

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Desktop Mapping: Building Map Books

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  1. Desktop Mapping: Building Map Books Jeff Barrette Michael Grossman

  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 UC2015 - Technical Workshop - Desktop Mapping: Building Map Books

  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 DDP and/or arcpy.mapping UC2015 - Technical Workshop - Desktop Mapping: Building Map Books

  4. Types of Map Books (cont.) • Thematic • all pages have the same extent • each page shows unique layers • Temporal • mapping time series data • each page shows unique data and time arcpy.mapping only UC2015 - Technical Workshop - Desktop Mapping: Building Map Books

  5. Data Driven Pages • Index layer • Single map layout • Pages based on feature extents • Other map updates • Dynamic legends, text, and pictures UC2015 - Technical Workshop - Desktop Mapping: Building Map Books

  6. Data Driven Pages Samantha Keehan

  7. 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 UC2015 - Technical Workshop - Desktop Mapping: Building Map Books

  8. arcpy.mapping example - appending PDFs import arcpy newPDF = arcpy.mapping.PDFDocumentCreate( “C:/project/newpdf.pdf”) newPDF.appendPages(“C:/project/titlepage.pdf”) newPDF.appendPages(“C:/project/mappages.pdf”) newPDF.appendPages(“C:/project/indexpages.pdf”) newPDF.saveAndClose() UC2015 - Technical Workshop - Desktop Mapping: Building Map Books

  9. arcpy.mapping Jeff Barrette

  10. Resources available • ArcGIS Resource Center (web help) • Building map books / DDP: http://esriurl.com/8147 • arcpy.mapping: http://esriurl.com/8148 • Alphabetical lists of classes and functions with detailed discussions • Multiple sample scripts for each class and function topic • ArcGIS Online – arcpy.mapping / Map Automation group • http://esriurl.com/8899 • Download sample scripts (be sure to check “Show ArcGIS Desktop Content”) UC2015 - Technical Workshop - Desktop Mapping: Building Map Books

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