Ideas for Final Projects

Starting points

What annoys you the most about performing a repetitive task in your favorite GIS?

How do I fix that?

It�s ok to use other scripts you find for ideas but make sure that you reference them as comments in your scripts

Also make sure that you are adding functionality to any existing scripts you may find

Idea 1: Dumping vertex coordinates to a file

This has never been straightforward in any version of our favorite GIS

Although a lot of information is out there on how to do it

Make it easy to do!

Your script should be able to do things like:

Create a table from a polygon layer, shapefile, etc. that has X,Y coordinate values for all vertices

Export the table to a file, maybe with supporting documentation

Allow different kinds of field separators (commas, spaces, etc)

Allow different export formats (text, Excel, DBase, etc.)

Allow multiple file input (maybe for all the shapefiles in some folder)

The possibilities are endless but your time is not�narrowing the feature set is important

Make sure your script uses ArcGIS folder browsing tools (don�t make the user type in paths)

Idea 2: Using GDAL functions to transform data

GDAL has some great functions but the syntax is fiddly�automating basic tasks over multiple files would be useful