Latest Contributions by EthanHeidtman

Thanks I will check out those links you listed above. I am unsure how many candidates are experienced in SmallWorld software. However, they did hire a classmate of mine for a GIS Technician position, who I know had no prior experience with the software because here at Miami University we only use ESRI products. So this does give me hope that knowing the GIS concepts in general plays a large part in getting the job. ... View more

im going to be a GIS technician in Cincinnati, so I am sure I will be back to ask more questions lol . ... View more

I will definitely look into model builder, we touched on it briefly in class. Sounds like it could be pretty useful for python scripting. Got the buffer to work. Now I all I have to do is select those addresses within the buffer, pretty easy from here on out. This was my first time seeking help on the internet, and it really HELPED. So once again thank you all, I am now able to finish and graduate with my GIS certification lol. ... View more

ok thank you for all the help!!! I am going to set this fc variable to equal feature class ending in kroger selection and then run the buffer in this for loop. I think I have a wayyyyyyy better understanding now. I appreciate everyone who has commented and shared advice. This would be very simple to complete outside of python, but I guess if I had 10000 features, python would prove more useful. Thanks again! ... View more

does anyone know why my script is stopping after print "features copied and not continuing on to the next line of code..... the list feature classes line. ... View more

do you think I should run another listFeatureclass_management with the where clause being something like (*krogerselection) and then for fc in fcList:      arcpy.Buffer_analysis ... View more

here is the output from the script ran above. its just running the buffer on the wrong fcs. ... View more

when i run it like that, it creates a buffer for the original fcs in the GBD... not the new kroger selection fcs. So I think I just need to figure out what the variable is for the newly created BRO_ADDSkrogerselection (etc.) fcs. Thanks everybody. ... View more

do you think it should be something like this ^^ ... View more

what do you mean "and clean go through your logic"Matthew Russo​ ... View more

would it be something like this....   ##MakeFeatureLayer_management(in_features,out_layer,{where_clause},{workspace},{field_info})     ##SelectLayerByAttribute_management (in_layer_or_view,{selection_type},{where_clause})     ##CopyFeatures_management (in_features,out_feature_class,{config_keyword},{spatial_grid_1},{spatial_grid_2},{spatial_grid_3})     kroger_selection = ('"COMMENT" = \'KROGER\'')     fcs = arcpy.ListFeatureClasses()     for fc in fcs:         print fc         print ""         fc_kroger = fc + "kroger"         fc_lyr = arcpy.MakeFeatureLayer_management (fc,fc_kroger)         arcpy.SelectLayerByAttribute_management(fc_lyr,"NEW_SELECTION",kroger_selection)         arcpy.CopyFeatures_management(fc_lyr,fc + "krogerselection")     print "Features Copied"         ##Buffer_analysis (in_features, out_feature_class, buffer_distance_or_field, {line_side}, {line_end_type}, {dissolve_option}, {dissolve_field})        #set input_features variable for buffer anlaysis         arcpy.env.workspace = "F:/GEO443/FinalPrj/Final.gdb"     fcList = arcpy.ListFeatureClasses("*krogerselection")     for fc in fcList:         print fc         arcpy.Buffer_analysis(fcList, fcList + "Buff", "1 Mile") ... View more

After the script runs before without the buffer analysis it provides me with the the county address points feature classss in my GDB and 5 new feature classes that contain only the Kroger points from each. I.e. BRO_ADDSkrogerselection CLE_ADDSkrogerselection Etc. I then want to create a 1 mile buffer around each Kroger selection feature class within the GDB... This is where I am stuck. Thank you all for the insight I truly appreciate it. I could complete this task very easily without using Python. But it is for a final project and the prof will not answer any questions ... View more

It won't even run the buffer analysis. I think I need to put it in a loop somehow. Something like list featureclasses with a where clause being a wild card *krogerselection Then the loop being for fc in fcs Buffer analysis I'm stumped! ... View more