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Mastering ArcGIS Enterprise Administration

You're reading from   Mastering ArcGIS Enterprise Administration Install, configure, and manage ArcGIS Enterprise to publish, optimize, and secure GIS services

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788297493
Length 382 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Chad Cooper Chad Cooper
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. ArcGIS Enterprise Introduction and Installation 2. Enterprise Geodatabase Administration FREE CHAPTER 3. Publishing Content 4. ArcGIS Server Administration 5. Portal for ArcGIS Administration 6. Security 7. Scripting Administrative Tasks 8. The ArcGIS Python API 9. ArcGIS Enterprise Standards and Best Practices 10. Troubleshooting ArcGIS Enterprise Issues and Errors

What is the ArcGIS API for Python?


The ArcGIS API for Python was conceived at the 2015 Esri International User Conference. The project, codenamed Geosaurus, was initiated to design and implement a Pythonic web GIS API that would be powerful, modern, and easy to use. So, what exactly does that mean?

Let's look at some of the defining terms and how they relate to the usability of the API:

  • Powerful: The API is powerful, in that it allows you to work with all aspects of your web GIS, where a web GIS can be either ArcGIS Online or Portal for ArcGIS. With the API, you can create, manage, and use GIS resources such as web layers, web maps, users, and groups.
  • Modern: The API is modern, in that it is built for Python 3 and integrates easily with libraries such as pandas, NumPy, and the SciPy ecosystem of libraries.
  • Easy to use: Ease of use is one of Python's greatest virtues, and Esri went to great strides to build the API with usability in mind.
    • Interactivity: The API comes ready to work well within...
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