arcgis.mapping.renderer.generate_renderer(???????)

Question

Hello,

I'm new has developer in esri products.

I'm having trouble with this method. I'm trying to create a chorolopeth map using esriClassifyNaturalBreaks, but the API reference doesn't mention any argument for the number of breaks, i found it in a video for other method (sdf.spatial.plot), the argument is "class_count=", and it works, i don't know why it is not in the documentation. But surprisenly the argument "method = ", does not work at all. No matter the value used it creates the same renderer. Am i doing something wrong here?

renderer_classed = arcgis.mapping.renderer.generate_renderer(geometry_type = 'Polygon',
sdf_or_series = sdf, 
render_type ='c',
colors = 'Reds',
method = 'esriClassifyNaturalBreaks',
field = 'media_10',
class_count = 5)

Which is the best way to create a renderer in python arcgis API?

Thanks

HenriqueJoner · Answer

Now the question is, has someone had success using this Python API for choropleth maps with these methods? Please, show me how.

method                  Determines the classification method that was used to
                        generate class breaks.

Must be one of the following values:

+ esriClassifyDefinedInterval
                        + esriClassifyEqualInterval
                        + esriClassifyGeometricalInterval
                        + esriClassifyNaturalBreaks
                        + esriClassifyQuantile
                        + esriClassifyStandardDeviation
                        + esriClassifyManual

HenriqueJoner · Answer

And additionaly, the very sample code from esri doesn't work has it should be:

https://developers.arcgis.com/python/guide/visualizing-data-with-the-spatially-enabled-dataframe/

If you try m4 sample code, you will realise that this method doesn't work at all:

df.spatial.plot(map_widget=m4,
renderer_type='c',  # for class breaks renderer
method='esriClassifyNaturalBreaks',  # classification algorithm
class_count=20,  # choose the number of classes
col='POPULATION',  # numeric column to classify
cmap='prism',  # color map to pick colors from for each class
alpha=0.7  # specify opacity
)

You can change to any method here (e.g., esriClassifyQuantile), and you will always get equal intervals breaks.

Now, the most strange thing is that to very sample code shows that there's no esriClassifyNaturalBreaks hapening there, has they show in the sample script, it is equal intervals....

cbs_list = []
cmap_list = []
for cb in class_breaks:
print(cb.description)  # print the class break labels
cbs_list.append(cb.classMaxValue)
cmap_list.append([x/255.0 for x in cb.symbol.color])

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HenriqueJoner · Answer

Just for update this topic:

When using sdf.spatial.plot() i get the same result. Any method, same renderer...

sdf.spatial.plot(kind ='map',
                map_widget = mapa1,
                renderer_type = 'c',
                method = 'esriClassifyNaturalBreaks',
                col = 'media_10',
                class_count = 5,
                cmap = 'Reds',
                outline_color = [0,0,0,150],
                line_width = 0.5)

It always retrieve equal intervals...