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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Tools for Esri's End Users

ProjectInfo

This repository houses Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Tools for Esri's End Users, via a Python toolbox of tools, for re-creating Esri's Advance Tools with only a Basic license.

Getting Started - User Guide

• Make sure you have Esri's basic license and the arcpy library installed in your machine.
• Download the toolbox and place it in an appropriate folder on your machine. Navigate to the folder in Catalog. If you expand all the toolsets, you will see the following:

• Click on the appropriate tool, and start working!

Contributing

This project welcomes contributions from anyone and everyone, of many forms.

Examples of contributions include:

• Code patches
• Documentation improvements
• Bug reports and patch reviews.

Those contributions should be performed by submitting a pull request.

Issues

Found a bug, or want to request a new feature? Please let me know by submitting an issue.

Tools

The tools are organized into toolsets, currently only one has been developed -Th e Data Management toolset.

Data Management Tools

• Erase

  This tool creates an Erase (difference) layer from a source layer and overlay layer.

• Symmetric Difference

  This tool creates a Symmetric Difference layer from a source layer and overlay layer.

• Convex Hull

  This tool creates a Convex Hull of the input layer. This feature exists in ArcInfo, as part of the 'Minimum Bounding Geometry' tool.

• Split Line At Intersection

  This tool Split polylines in a polyline layer, by they're intersection points.

• Polygon to Line

  This tool creates a PolyLine layer from a Polygon layer (the polygons' boundary).

• Simplify Features

  This tool Simplify Polygons \ Polyline Features, by a tolerance distance.

• Aggregate Polygons

  This tool creates an aggregation layer of the input polygons, aggregated by a tolerance distance, with convex hull. This tool result differ from esri's tool, as you can see in the below figure (this tool's result in green, Esri's in red):

  

  Known Issues:

  • Not Optimal solution - based on a convex hull method
  • Way to improve - check angles and extend polygons in the angles' directions

• Feature To Envelope

  This tool Creates an Envelope from a Feature layer.

• Features To Point

  This tool Creates a Points Features of true centroid from feature layer.

• Flip Lines

  This tool Flips polyline's end and start vertices directions.

• Feature Vertices To Points

  This tool Creates Points from feature's vertices.

• Split Line At Vertices

  This tool Split Line At Vertices.

Licensing

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"). A copy of the license is available in the repository's License.txt file.