NACIS 2016

NACIS 2016

Here’s the video of the presentation with slide/content from my original post below. Thanks to NACIS and the PCD coordinators for recording & processing the video and facilitating all the presentations. I presented a workflow using ArcMap, Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign this year at NACIS. Below is each slide image and video I used in my […]

Export map layers to gdb with python

Posted by in Data, GIS

Here’s a quick one. I have used this script many times as part of a data inventory workflow. It’s also been handy to start project databases with data from a variety of sources – so I can pluck data out of my source GIS databases into specific project databases. When used in conjunction with some […]

Export MXDs in all subdirectories

Posted by in ArcMap, Data, GIS, Mapbook
Export MXDs in all subdirectories

This is an answer to the question in my post on batch exporting mxd’s in a folder. James asked about exporting all mxds in all subdirectories of a root folder. Thanks James for distracting me from my work this afternoon to solve this :). Below is the code to accomplish this. The first loop populates […]

A Batch Download Workflow

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A Batch Download Workflow

I’ve used this hack/technique a couple times now and wanted to share it and document it. I was recently doing some web research on map production guidelines as I’m trying to put some together for my GIS department. I stumbled across this Map productions guidelines PDF from the Australian Local Government. It is a really […]