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 […]
Streetview scrape
I wrote this script to download google streetview images locally for a list of addresses in a text file, one address per line. It’s an easy (at the least preliminary) way to get images of structures, houses, etc.. We needed this for an inventory of certain structures in a planning effort, but this can be […]
Zip all shapefiles in directory individually
This script zips individual shapefiles within a defined directory. The zipfiles are named identical to the shapefile itself. This is useful for platforms like CartoDB and MapBox, especially if you are in an Esri workflow. If you are usging a geodatabase, it can be converted to shapefiles, then those shapefiles can be passed through this […]
Batch export mxds in a folder
Below is python to export all mxd’s in a given directory. I use this very often in my current workflow. This is used when data driven pages is either not appropriate or does not adhere to workflow standards. We need individual mxd’s for each map and each version of each map, individual maps can’t be […]
Building a logo with arcmap
Here’s how I built a logo for my presentation at NACIS last year using only arcmap! I wanted to demonstrate that design can be done in ArcMap, this was my inspiration to design an arbitrary logo, my cheapo nylon yamaha, which I love the rosette on: Here’s a video of the process: And here’s a […]
