how to plot shapefile in Jupyter notebook

MingHan

Hi Everyone 

    Here  is a simple question, how to plot several shapefiles in Jupyter notebook?

 

Thanks

Ming 

jcarlson

If you're talking the built-in notebooks in Pro, check out arcgis.features.GeoAccessor().from_featureclass() to create a Spatially Enabled DataFrame of your shapefiles. Then it's as simple as calling plot on that object.

By creating a separate MapView first, you can plot your shapefiles onto the same map.

from arcgis.features import GeoAccessor
from arcgis.widgets import MapView

map1 = MapView()

df1 = GeoAccessor().from_featureclass('C:/path-to-file/your-file.shp')
df2 = GeoAccessor().from_featureclass('C:/path-to-file/your-file-2.shp')

df1.spatial.plot(map1)
df2.spatial.plot(map2)

 

Now, if you're not working in the default Pro python environment, I would be remiss if I didn't also mention GeoPandas, which is an excellent tool for making static maps that integrate cleanly with MatPlotLib, and is just as capable of reading shapefiles.

If I don't need my notebook maps to be interactive, I personally prefer to use it over the Spatially Enabled DataFrame. (Related: the SEDF has a from_geodataframe method to convert a GeoPandas GeoDataFrame into a SEDF, so if you need to get your data back into an Esri-friendly format, it's very easy to do so.)