ESRI makes me crazy sometimes
Posted on 27. Feb, 2008 by Guido in Uncategorized
OK… the podcast launch is going slow. But, as always I am learning new things about GIS.
So what have I learned recently.
ESRI ModelBuilder models and Python Geoprocessing scripts don’t work for me. Somehow, in the process of creating a model I ran into a bug at every turn.
While building a model I learned that Field Mapping does not work well when you batch Append and many of the temporary variables I used needed real file locations and were not completely based on input values. This makes it difficult to use the model on multiple computers with input variables. Ugh…
So then I learn to write a Python script. This handles the field mapping and the variable issues. Great!! I am back on board with how this is an awesome tool. But, for what ever reason the topology tools are not working properly from python. So I need to make a python call to a modelmaker model to complete the topology issue.
OK, this is where I get off. I had issues getting the toolbox-model and the script to find each other.
It makes me sad that I ran into so many walls. I was really excited about using the tools to automate some of my work.
Oh well… you win some you lose some and sometimes you just have to keep hacking until you find a workaround.
