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