ArcGIS API for Python

ArcGIS API for Python is a library designed for working with maps and geospatial data via web GIS. It provides tools for:

• Analysis: Deep learning, vector and raster analysis, geocoding, routing, and directions.
• GIS Management: Organizing and managing users, groups, and information items.
• Map Making: Creating and working with maps and curated geographic data from Esri and other sources.
• Scientific Integration: Seamless integration with the scientific Python ecosystem, including support for Pandas, Scikit-Learn, Fast.ai, and Jupyter notebooks.

You can use the ghcr.io/esri/arcgis-python-api-lambda:latest Docker image to deploy ArcGIS API for Python workflows to AWS Lambda.

To use this image:

1. Set up your Dockerfile using the image as the base and copying your application code to the ${LAMBDA_TASK_ROOT}.
2. Ensure your application (e.g., app.py) contains a standard AWS Lambda handler method.
3. Push the resulting image to a private AWS ECR instance. Note that public AWS ECR instances are not supported for Lambda.
4. Configure your AWS Lambda function to run from this container image.

FROM ghcr.io/esri/arcgis-python-api-lambda:latest
COPY app.py ${LAMBDA_TASK_ROOT}

import arcgis

def handler(event, context):
    """
    AWS Lambda Handler
    """
    print(f"Hello from AWS Lambda using ArcGIS API for Python {arcgis.__version__}!")

You can run the provided sample notebooks and guide chapters using several different environments:

• Local Installation: Install the API on your computer using a package manager like Anaconda.
• ArcGIS Pro: Execute notebooks directly within the ArcGIS Pro application.
• ArcGIS Notebooks: Use the hosted notebook service available on ArcGIS Online.
• Docker: Run the API within a Dockerised environment.
• Binder: Execute notebooks in a web-based interactive environment via Binder.

The clone_portal.py script is a stand-alone Python utility designed to clone an entire ArcGIS Portal environment from a source portal to a target portal. This includes:

1. Users: Recreating user accounts in the target portal.
2. Groups: Recreating groups in the target portal.
3. Items: Copying content items (e.g., Web Maps, Feature Services, CSVs, etc.) from the source to the target.
4. Relationships: Re-establishing relationships between items (such as Service2Data relationships) in the target portal to ensure content remains functional.

To use the script, run it in a Python environment with the ArcGIS API for Python installed. The script will prompt you for the passwords of both the source and target portals during execution.

Conda is a platform-independent package manager used to install, update, and remove Python packages. It uses channels (repositories) to find software. Esri maintains a specific channel named esri which contains the arcgis package.

There are two main ways to install Conda:

• Full Anaconda Distribution: Installs Conda along with hundreds of pre-installed Python packages.
• Miniconda: A lightweight version that installs only Python, Conda, and the essential libraries required to run Conda.