topic Re: Automate a Spatial Map Series in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Automate a Spatial Map Series

Kimbers — Tue, 07 May 2024 15:22:16 GMT

Hi Everyone

I have a Map Series that my user needs to run with (preferably) just the click of a button

I have tried automating the process using ModelBuilder but I couldn't quite make it work

I am using a Feature Layer on ArcGIS online, and generating a grid. The data changes and so the grid needs to be created every time the process is run

Is there a better way of doing this? Do I need to use ArcPy? Any help would be appreciated.

Many thanks

Re: Automate a Spatial Map Series

David_McRitchie — Tue, 07 May 2024 15:30:14 GMT

I would suspect that coding will be needed to automate this. The following samples under the Pro Python documentation might help here and provide some useful implementation examples

Hope that helps!

David

Re: Automate a Spatial Map Series

Kimbers — Wed, 08 May 2024 10:09:00 GMT

Thank you David. That's really helpful. I'll see if I can figure it out and report back....

Re: Automate a Spatial Map Series

ODWC_GIS — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 15:37:33 GMT

I am in the midst of this right now. And hit a snag... (which is why I'm browsing the Community pages)

So far, I think ArcPy is sort-of enough. So far, the steps include the arcpy.mp class for the project, map, layer, and layout. Querying some of those along the way with the arcpy.da class. Alongside the def MakeRec_LL() function found in a few of the online tool examples. Then a stumbling into the weeds of the CIM (cartographic information model) to build the actual Spatial Map Series.

That's actually where I'm getting stuck. The units for the series' margin all seem to be interpreted as "percent of mapframe" even when I'm specifically telling it otherwise.

https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/3.2/arcpy/mapping/python-cim-access.htm#ESRI

https://github.com/Esri/cim-spec/blob/main/docs/v3/CIMLayout.md#cimspatialmapseries

Once I figure it out, I'll post a file here.