00:01As Jack discussed in the video, it's about maps and better map production.

00:08There's a number of things that we've...

00:10...taken a look at in order to improve how you produce high-quality cartographic maps.

00:21We'll review a few of these components now. You see intelligent map elements.

00:27Within the 10 release, we have the concept of data-driven maps and information about the features that continually are...

00:35...change as you're trying to build a map series, allowing the features that are there...

00:44...letting the technology update those things that change continually.

00:49Think about page numbers or map titles, dates, those kind of things that continually change as you're building that map series.

00:57Here we have, we're introducing intelligent map elements that take advantage of that, allowing you to...

01:05...remove some of that manual updates on...updating those map series...

01:12... making your work a little bit quicker and easier to do.

01:17Second area that we've looked at is also within some of the cartographic production elements.

01:23When you're creating multiscale maps, there's often a difficulty in producing those...

01:30...maintaining the symbology and the shade sets that are there as you're moving within those systems.

01:36Generalization takes advantage of computer cartography tools and rules that you establish to make that an easier process.

01:48Third component is about [ArcGIS] Schematics and using that extension to help...

01:54...you represent complex networks that you may maintain.

02:00So some of you may look and maintain water systems or electric or different types of utility systems.

02:08[ArcGIS] Schematics can be that place where you can represent features on that complex set of networks...

02:16...and be able to display that in simple representation of line maps and where are those elements on my network.

02:25So take a look at that extension if you have the need to deploy out maps that are very complex; you need to get...

02:35...the content about the features that you're maintaining on that system available to people.

02:41And then in the middle, it's about map books.

02:44How many of you have downloaded over the years the developer sample map books? I see a few hands here.

02:52What's interesting about that is that it's been used within many of your organizations...

02:57... for public safety or public works programs allowing you to generate these map books for use out in the field.

03:06Well, it's now part of the core feature at ArcMap.

03:10You don't have to download it anymore; you don't have to maintain that.

03:13It's part of the data-driven map elements that we've described.

03:18So you can take advantage of that right off the bat within ArcMap.

03:22And I actually, I saw someone go a little clapping hand; I mean, that's a good thing.

03:27We want to bring these features in, things that were popular as developer samples, and make that part of core function.

03:40Associated with map books is the ability to...how do I automate that?

03:44So we looked at some of the intelligent map element components...

03:48...and how you can take advantage of the features that continually change within that.

03:53But if I have to do a hundred maps, thousand maps, whatever, for report generation on a quarterly basis, how do I do that?

04:04How can I make my life easier by utilizing the resources within ArcMap?

04:09We have some new automation concepts that we want you to explore...

04:13...and it's all based upon the scripting environment that we have.

04:17Python scripting is an introduction. It's introduced within ArcGIS...

04:23...and allows you to combine different types of features together in order to help automate the process.

04:29So think about the user interface as you're building the map book.

04:33It has changing elements about map title, reports, or different types of elements there.

04:39Within the ArcPy components, you can add that into the Python script and...

04:48...begin to automate that process. And I just said ArcPy.

04:51Let's go ahead and go into a demonstration...

04:53...that describes some of these elements that we had about map automation. Katja?

05:02Alright. Thanks, Tony.

05:04So quite a few of you have been using the sample...

05:07...and as Tony mentioned, we now have similar ability to create map books right out of the box using the Data Driven Pages.

05:15So let's take a look at that.

05:17Usually when we have a map book, we use some sort of grid to generate the Data Driven Pages.

05:25So let's do that. Let's get the Data Driven Pages toolbar.

05:33And within here, there is the setup that enables us to have that map book-like functionality.

05:41So it gives me the ability to choose, certainly, the data frame that is used within the map book for switching the pages...

05:49...the layer that is going to be used for those pages.

05:53And let me change a couple of those parameters.

05:57I'm going to set the "Planned End" to be the field by which we're sorting.

06:02Move this up a little bit.

06:05I'll set the rotation to the Rotation field, and I'm ready to go ahead and create the pages.

06:14So this way, I'm going to have a page for every one of my projects.

06:21So I actually didn't use the grid; I used the project areas. So we've got some text that got populated within the layout.

06:27So we've got the capital improvement projects, we've got the completion date...

06:32...and we can go to the next page and see that text being replaced.

06:38And that is what Data Driven Pages mean. The text on the map is driven by the information within your feature class.

06:47So now the next step for me is to create a PDF document for that map book.

06:54And I can do that by going to File and Print and Print to PDF.

07:00But the reality is that typically when we create a map book, we don't just have the map pages within it.

07:07We have the title page and the summary page and maybe table of contents.

07:12So another improvement in 10 is the ability to work with the user interface within ArcMap using Python.

07:21So how many of you are Python scripters in the room? Okay.

07:25How many of you are ArcObjects programmers? Alright, just a few of you.

07:31Well, so it may seem intimidating to start using Python, but it really is quite easy to get started.

07:41So let's take a look. Those of you that have used Python are familiar with ArcGIS scripting module.

07:48Well, that module has been replaced by ArcPy. So let's go ahead and import ArcPy.

07:55And you can see the IntelliSense OS.

07:58And we can import a number of modules, any module that is available in Python; execute that.

08:06And then let's do MXD equals and then ArcPy dot and it gives me options, so I'm going to say Mapping.

08:15So what do you think I'm doing right now?

08:18So Map Document, and then I'm going to say Current.

08:23So I'm importing the current map document.

08:26So I just wanted to show you that so that you guys can see some of this IntelliSense that is available there.

08:33And also, ArcPy is just a single module, so it's not like learning the whole ArcObjects data model. Okay?

08:41But yet it is getting more and more powerful to do automation and interact with map graphic interface using Python...

08:51...which is something that we couldn't previously do. We had to go to ArcObjects to do that kind of customization.

08:57So let's clear this right here, and I've created some script ahead of time 'cause I make a lot of typos when I script.

09:06And what this script is doing...it's going to take a couple of seconds to run.

09:11But what it's doing is it's creating the map book, first of all.

09:14It's taking those, I think eight or nine projects that I have in the map, and it is generating the map book out of those.

09:23And actually, the one that I imported was doing something different. So we'll take a look at the script in a second.

09:29But this is the map document that was created, the PDF document.

09:34So I've got the first page, the title page.

09:38Then I've got one of the maps, which is the one that was displayed in my document.

09:44And then I've got the summary page.

09:47Now the reason I've only got this current map displayed in here is because that's what I asked for in the script.

09:55So I asked for the current page from the Data Driven Pages right here to be imported.

10:06It takes two to three minutes to generate the whole map book, so that's why I did that.

10:11But I did create this map document, so see, this one was just created at 11:12, just right now.

10:17And then I can take a look at all pages, and so this is what you would see. Alright?

10:23So just simply out of the box, we were able to do a couple of things.

10:27First of all, create a map book and specify the parameters for our map book;...

10:32...alter our layout;...

10:34...create some text on the layout using the information, the feature class, for each of those project areas for the map book.

10:42And then we used ArcPy module to interact with the map graphic user interface ...

10:49...as well as Python's own modules such as those that allow you to create PDF documents to put together several map documents.

10:59And I think that's quite powerful. Tony, back to you.

11:02Okay. Thank you, Katja.

11:06So ArcPy and what we described, it's part of the Python scripting environment...

11:13...sounds kind of complicated as was demonstrated. However, it has that IntelliSense that she described.

11:19So you can begin to get started with it, play around with it...

11:23...but there's also resources online for training to help you get started and comfortable. Okay?

11:28So just take a look at it, see how you can use Python scripting within your map environment to help automate that process.