Is there a function in the ArcGIS API for Python for the XY to Line tool (like arcpy's arcpy.management.XYToLine)? I haven't been able to find it in the documentation if it exists.
Thanks Dan.
For anyone else looking for something similar in the future, I ended up using the GeodesicLinesToGIS module as the basis for this. Given a DataFrame called 'start_df' that contains two sets of long/lats i.e. X1, Y1, X2, Y2:
from shapely.geometry import Point, LineString import pandas as pd from arcgis.features import GeoAccessor from geodesiclinestogis.geodesicline2gisfile import GeodesicLine2Gisfile gtg = GeodesicLine2Gisfile() def make_geodesic_line(row): long_lats = tuple(row) cd = gtg.gdlComp(long_lats) line = [Point(x) for x in cd] line = LineString(line) line = str(line) return line lines = start_df.apply(make_geodesic_line, axis = 1) df = pd.DataFrame({ 'id' : list_of_ids, 'SHAPE' : lines }) sedf = pd.DataFrame().spatial.from_df(df, geometry_column = 'SHAPE')
If you wanted, then it shouldn't be too difficult to take the calculations from the GeodesicLinesToGIS module directly instead of importing it as a dependency.
No, but you can roll out your own if you want to use arcpy or even shapely
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