Quick and Easy Custom Google Earth Legends
Here’s a system to rapidly create nice looking Google Earth legends. I’m going to start assuming an already existing kml and known legend items. The data in this example was compiled and converted to Google Earth in ArcMap using the native conversion tools. The legend is initially composed in ArcMap and copy/pasted into illustrator. I’m […]
Grid of measured points with python
I’ve needed to create a measured grid of points for a variety of reasons in my GIS career. Here’s a flexible bit of code to create a grid of points spanning a vertical and horizontal range, at a specific interval for each – defined in the script. This method also allows any coordinate system and […]
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 […]
