https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-python-questions/spatially-enabled-dataframes-export-to-feature/m-p/1302095#M8816 <P>Just want others to be aware of a potential issue when converting/exporting a spatially enabled dataframe to a feature class shapefile.</P><P>When exporting a spatially enabled dataframe (sedf) to a feature class, i.e. shapefile in this case, I was getting data in certain integer columns that was being changed by the function (.spatial.to_featureclass). After some debugging, I discovered that my column names from a pandas dataframe that I had merged with a sedf had more than 8 characters. I believe this is an issue with the dbf created for the shapefile wherein the column names cannot be greater than 8 characters when using the sanitize_columns = True parameter. When I renamed the columns to shorter lengths and then exported, the data was not changed.</P> Thu, 22 Jun 2023 16:05:40 GMT mjrubino 2023-06-22T16:05:40Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-python-questions/spatially-enabled-dataframes-export-to-feature/m-p/1302095#M8816 <P>Just want others to be aware of a potential issue when converting/exporting a spatially enabled dataframe to a feature class shapefile.</P><P>When exporting a spatially enabled dataframe (sedf) to a feature class, i.e. shapefile in this case, I was getting data in certain integer columns that was being changed by the function (.spatial.to_featureclass). After some debugging, I discovered that my column names from a pandas dataframe that I had merged with a sedf had more than 8 characters. I believe this is an issue with the dbf created for the shapefile wherein the column names cannot be greater than 8 characters when using the sanitize_columns = True parameter. When I renamed the columns to shorter lengths and then exported, the data was not changed.</P> Thu, 22 Jun 2023 16:05:40 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-python-questions/spatially-enabled-dataframes-export-to-feature/m-p/1302095#M8816 mjrubino 2023-06-22T16:05:40Z