Module 3 - Geoprocessing



The assignment for this module was quite a rollercoaster for me. I actually went in fairly confident because I had worked through the exercise without too much trouble and had read the assigned chapter. Getting through the model building was not too difficult and actually made a lot of sense to me. I guess because I can see the flow of the processes better than the written scripts. 
Once I reached the code writing portion I was ready to jump right in. I made it through adding the XY coordinates and adding the buffer to the shapefile fairly easily. However, dissolving the buffer presented quite a challenge for me. I must have retyped the code as it was done in the exercise 15 times and would get a different error message every time! Luckily at some point it just clicked and the code ran successfully. I have included by script results as well as the map showing the shapefiles. On to Module 4!



 

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