take layer offline devlab about arcgis-python-api HOT 4 CLOSED

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1. yes, showing save functionality is appropriate and I like the idea of saving to other formats in the challenge section
2. You can save on OSX, Linux. We need pyshp for IO with shape files and fiona for fgdb. The fiona part is still under dev, not available in production at 1.3. So you might want to show saving to shape file now and update it to fgdb later
3. I think it is save to query a subset, this way we don't run out of memory and is generally a good pattern to show case. Additionally, the sample teaches how to specify queries.

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There are multiple ways to export feature data to shp or fgdb:

• Item.export() - by owner or admin
• extract_data()
• FeatureLayer.query() -> FeatureSet ->(optonally) SpatialDataFrame - >shp (no fgdb yet). These can be saved to shapefiles but need arcpy or pyshp. PyShp doesn't currently support projections though.

I think we should promote the first two approaches for exporting to shp and fgdb as they don't need pyshp or arcpy on the client. The third approach is mainly to get data into a SpatialDataFrame. Saving the spatial dataframe to a file could be a separate lab.

I find getting a dataframe out of a layer the most valuable for analysis.

The simplified code could be:

from arcgis.gis import GIS
from arcgis.features import SpatialDataFrame

gis = GIS(username="<USERNAME>")

items = gis.content.search(query='Griffith', 'Feature Layer')
feature_layer_item = items[0]
feature_layer = feature_layer_item.layers[0]

sdf = SpatialDataFrame.from_layer(layer)
sdf.head()

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appreciate the feedback @rohitgeo @AtmaMani ! Should I change this lab to just get a dataframe per Rohit's snippet?

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Yes, let's do that. We can then write the SpatialDataFrame to disk using the to_featureclass() method.

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