Module 5: Exploring and Manipulating Data

 Module 5: Exploring and Manipulating Data 


This module focused on the implementation of cursors and dictionaries within newly created geodatabases. We learned a lot of different functions and techniques applying to geospatial data.

The most notable problem I encountered this week was compiling the search cursor queries into one

script. One of the steps in the project was to create a Search Cursor for the cities layer to find the

Name, Population (POP_2000), and Feature of all County Seat Cities. Initially, I could only get the

cursor to run by dividing each of these categories into a separate cursor file, generating a long list of

either city names, populations, and features, respectively. This was for all intents and purposes

functional, but was practically illegible and a definite eyesore. By trial and error I was able to create

separate variables, and vitally separate print row.getValue statements for each of my fields to make

the same script generate all inquiries simultaneously.

The successful code ran as follows: 



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