GIS 4102: GIS Programming Module 7

Module 7: Explore/Manipulate Spatial Data

This week’s lecture covered checking for, describing, and listing data, working with lists and dictionaries, working with search cursors, update cursors, insert cursors, running SQL queries, and validating table and field names.

This week’s assignment involved writing a script to do the following:

1.     Create a new geodatabase.

2.     Copy all data from a data folder into the new geodatabase.

3.     Populate a dictionary with the names and population of every county seat city in New Mexico.

4.     Printing messages before and after each process.

Below is a screen shot of the results in the Interactive Python window.