Latest Contributions by IanMurray

It is usually in the units your dataframe is in.  You can use the measure tool on the toolbar to check a sample distance between points in a unit of your choice to double check.  Your dataframe units can be found in the bottom right corner of the map, or by checking your dataframe properties. ... View more

If you want to know which parcel the well point is on, why not do a spatial join first, that way you only need to iterate over 1 attribute table, after you do the spatial join. ArcGIS Help (10.2, 10.2.1, and 10.2.2) You will need to add another field to your points, so you can put "YES" it in.‌ This way you should only need 1 search cursor, which will need the the field names for the well owner, parcel owner, and field name that will contain the "Yes". so after doing a spatial join and adding your new field it would look something like this. import arcpy wells = "path here" wellowner  = "Owner" #or whatever your field name is parcelowner = "Owner1" #or whatever your field name is with arcpy.da.UpdateCursor(wells, [wellowner, parcelowner, "Nameofyournewfieldhere"]) as cursor:   for row in cursor:     if row[0] == row[1]:       row[2] = "YES"       cursor.updateRow(row)     else:       continue You did pretty well with your code, cursors can take a little while to get use to. A little critique of your code: import arcpy #perfect! wells = "path here" #good parcels = "path here" # good owner = ["Owner"] #no brackets needed, you want a string not a list(though it turns out okay in this case) powner = ["Owner1"] #see above cursor = arcpy.da.UpdateCursor(wells, ["Public"]) #correct syntax for making a cursor, kudos for using the data access cursor wellowner = arcpy.da.SearchCursor(wells, owner) #again correct syntax parcelowner = arcpy.da.SearchCursor(parcels, powner)#ditto if ( wellowner == parcelowner ) : #here would be the problem, you are comparing two cursor objects and not their values      for row in cursor: #correct syntax for accessing your update cursor object            row = YES #would be row[indexvalueofyourfield] See my example else row = cursor.next() A good attempt for a first time, I would recommend trying some of their sample code first to get use to the syntax and outputs. ... View more

Theo, try this import arcpy mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument("CURRENT") pageNumbers = [1,2,3,4,9,10,45] #put your page numbers in brackets separated by commas for pageNum in pageNumbers:   mxd.dataDrivenPages.currentPageID = pageNum   print "Exporting page {0} of {1}".format(str(mxd.dataDrivenPages.currentPageID), str(mxd.dataDrivenPages.pageCount))   arcpy.mapping.ExportToJPEG(mxd, r"X:\DVDs to burn\South Atlantic Margins\Arcview projects\A3 & A4 Images and Export mxd's\2014 DDP A3 Exports\Images\Free Air" + str(pageNum) + ".jpg") del mxd All you do is put the page numbers in the brackets separated by commas, and it should export only those page numbers, feel free to delete the ones currently in there, they are for representation only.  It just takes the list of numbers and go to each of those page numbers and exports it out. ... View more

You could use string formatting to make sure that all labels have the same spacing if you are adding multiple fields to your string. def FindLabel():       x = "cats"       y = "dogs"       a = "cat"       b = "dog"   return x.ljust(10) + y.ljust(10)  + "\n" + a.ljust(10) +   b  So for any length of string for x, y and a, it would add spaces after to make the entire string length 10, and be left justified.  This way all your labels would have same length and be lined up. I haven't tried yours out yet, but this does add the spaces in my own sample map I made. 7.1. string — Common string operations — Python v2.7.8 documentation‌ EDIT: Actually both using multiple spaces and using tabs makes wider spaces in my labels in ArcMAP then using a single space. "\t" looks about 4 spaces as opposed to a single " ".  I'm on ArcGIS 10.2.0.3348 ... View more