Mapping Module

Abstract

Suppose you want to take a screen shot of dozens of maps to insert into a report. Or suppose you’ve been reorganizing your data and you want to ensure that you haven’tbroken the data paths on a large collection of maps. Or suppose you’ve carefully selected a symbology for a layer and you’d like to apply this symbology to other maps that use that data. With the arcpy package mapping module, you can automate these and other tasks related to map documents and their layers. The mapping module is a script that resides within the arcpy package installed with ArcGIS. This chapter discusses how to use the mapping module to work with map documents, data frames, layers, symbology, and map layout elements.