topic Re: how to plot shapefile in Jupyter notebook in ArcGIS Pro Questions

how to plot shapefile in Jupyter notebook

MingHan — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 17:11:51 GMT

Hi Everyone

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

Thanks

Ming

Re: how to plot shapefile in Jupyter notebook

DanPatterson — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 17:18:35 GMT

ArcGIS Notebooks in ArcGIS Pro (2.7) - GeoNet, The Esri Community has some tips

Re: how to plot shapefile in Jupyter notebook

jcarlson — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 17:40:12 GMT

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.)

Re: how to plot shapefile in Jupyter notebook

MingHan — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 18:28:39 GMT

Thanks, It works for me.

How to only plot the outline of the polygon, without fill any colors?

I checked the options in here [https://developers.arcgis.com/python/api-reference/arcgis.features.toc.html#arcgis.features.SpatialDataFrame.plot], seems no options are exist

Thanks

Ming

Re: how to plot shapefile in Jupyter notebook

jcarlson — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 18:59:19 GMT

It gets a bit more complex, but take a look at the symbology section. You should be able to apply some of this to your map layer. I've a little less experience with that, however.

Re: how to plot shapefile in Jupyter notebook

DanPatterson — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 19:17:15 GMT

You don't even need a jupyter notebook either

Arcpy shapes... viewing in Spyder - GeoNet, The Esri Community

It always seemed redundant to view spatial data in a notebook within Pro when you can just look at it in Pro if you have it already

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