This week we were tasked with using the coding skills we've gained over the past few lessons to run various geoprocessing tools in ArcGIS Pro. We used both the Model Builder feature and ran additional geoprocessing tools in Notebook. I love the functionality of the Model Builder and I could see how this would have been useful previously. I remember running a lot of individual tools during my Introduction to GIS final project and this would have more easily streamlined it (and possibly could have reduced some of unnecessary geoprocessing I did blundering around on my own for the first time. As someone who prefer visual context for tasks (and isn't GIS all about providing visuals?) this particular feature is very appealing and I look forward to using it more.
We built a simple model that clipped a provided soil shapefile into a specific basin area, then erased the areas that were classified as "Not prime farmland". This created the following output:
Our second task, in Notebook, was to add XY point data to a provided hospital shapefile, and then to run buffer analysis with the dissolve feature added. Although we worked through buffer analysis during the exercises, we had not added XY data to a shapefile before. We were told to reference the ArcGIS help pages for this task. I appreciated this because it gave me practice referencing online materials for solving new-to-me coding problems. I realize that after this class I will be constantly learning and will often need to reference internet resources in this manner. Even with the reference page I still find myself overanalyzing and second guessing (and therefore making mistakes) with my script. This seems to be a consistent theme for me in this class since I want to understand what each piece of the script is doing but with patience and practice I am understanding more and more.
We are not supposed to share our actual codes on our blog for obvious reasons but here is a screenshot of my output in Notebook for this exercise:
And after my code was run it nicely populated directly onto my map as pictured:
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