Latest Contributions by BenHolmes

Picked an idea for this off stack overflow (link) import arcpy,json mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument("CURRENT") for lyr in arcpy.mapping.ListLayers(mxd):     print json.dumps(lyr.name, ensure_ascii=False) ... View more

Have you tried using %ScratchWorkspace%\Output.dbf for your output file? You'd probably need to set that in the model as the default output and get it as text in the script. ... View more

Pyscripter is quite nice to use. It was mentioned in one of the geoprocessing blogs on here http://code.google.com/p/pyscripter/ ... View more

You could try a Dissolve based on the CODE Look in ArcTools under Data Management Tools/Generalization ... View more

Thanks for that Dan All points in this case should really of been within the polygons! I'll can just make an envelope polygon to pick up any that are just outside the admin boundaries. Should do the job until SP5 Thanks Ben ... View more

Hi Julia Maybe you just need to use Spatial Join (Find it in ArcToolbox under Analysis Tools/Overlay) Are you trying to assign some admin area to the rainfall data? If it's polygon based then Spatial Join is what you want. If not, please give some more info of what you are trying to join the rainfall points to or what you(or your boss) want(s) at the end of the analysis. Ben ... View more

This should do it, but you would need to put it in a loop to go through your mxds import arcpy inMXD = r'c:\test.mxd' outMXD = r'c:\test1.mxd' rLayer = 'test3' #Name of reference layer mLayer = 'test4' #Name of layer to be replaced and moved lyrFile = arcpy.mapping.Layer(r'c:\Test4.lyr') #Layer file used to replace layer mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(inMXD) for df in arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(mxd):           #loop data frames     for lyr in arcpy.mapping.ListLayers(mxd,"",df):    #loop layers         if lyr.isGroupLayer == 1:                      #Is layer a group layer             for glyr in arcpy.mapping.ListLayers(lyr): #loop layer in group layer                 if glyr != lyr:                        #Not Group Layer Name                     if glyr.name.lower() == mLayer:    #Layer to be replaced and moved                         arcpy.mapping.RemoveLayer(df, glyr) #Remove the layer                         arcpy.mapping.AddLayer(df, lyrFile) #Add layer based on Layer File                     if glyr.name.lower() == rLayer:    #Layer to be used to reference position of move layer                         refLayer = glyr                #Set ref layer     #Have to loop through layers again as layer is added outside the group layer     for lyr in arcpy.mapping.ListLayers(mxd,"",df): #Start new loop of layers         if lyr.name.lower() == mLayer:  #Is move layer             moveLyr = glyr  #Set move layer #Move layer to required position arcpy.mapping.MoveLayer(df, refLayer, moveLyr, "BEFORE") mxd.saveACopy(outMXD) del mxd -Ben ... View more

Maybe try os.walk() Look here for a sample http://stackoverflow.com/questions/120656/directory-listing-in-python ... View more

Hi David Not really JS API, but you might want to look at density mapping. You would need the spatial analyst extension for it. You can do it at desktop and then load the raster into a map service. Other than that, if you want to look at the points, you may want to look at multipoints rather than single point data. Again not server, but in the data. Hope that gives you some ideas! Ben ... View more