What's new in version 2.0.0

New

• Optimizes performance throughout API through implemention of LazyLoading
• Adds support for ArcGIS StoryMaps
  • See What's the Difference? for background on ArcGIS StoryMaps and Classic Esri Story Maps
• New Module for support of ArcGIS Online server functionality:
  • arcgis.gis.agoserver
    • Classes:
      • AGOLServicesDirectory
      • AGOLServersManager
      • AGOLServerManager
    • provides restore/backup functionality
    • schedules rebuilding of cache
    • modifies and updates feature service content
    • modifies multiple service properties
• New Package for enhanced and customizable security
• arcgis.auth
  • Subpackage
    • arcgis.auth.tools
      • Submodules
        • certificate
        • verifycontext
  • Submodules
    • arcgis.auth.api
• optimizes security handling for multiple authentication schemes, including PKI and IWA
• allows for extension of authentication mechanism to customize authentication handlers
• allows for optimized generation of tokens to older Enterprise

Guides

• Feature data and analysis
  • Part 1 - Introduction to Parcel Fabric layers
  • Part 2 - Branch Versioning with Parcel Fabric
  • Part 3 - Create a New Parcel Record
  • Part 4 - Query Parcels
  • Part 5 - Merge Parcels
• Working with the Spatially Enabled DataFrame
  • Part-2 - Data IO with SeDF - Accessing Data
  • Part-3 Data IO with SeDF - Exporting Data
• Mapping and visualization
• Part 1 - Introduction to using the map widget
• Part 2 - Navigating the map widget
• Part 3 - Visualizing spatial data on the map widget
• Part 4 - Visualizing time enabled data on the map widget
• Part 5 - Saving, embedding and exporting the map widget
• Deep Learning with ArcGIS
  • Add a new model using Model Extension
  • Use MMDetection with arcgis.learn

Samples

• GIS analysts and data scientists
• Predicting voters turnout for US election in 2016 using AutoML - Part I
• Predicting voters turnout for US election in 2016 using AutoML and spatial feature engineering - Part II
• Forecasting Air Temperature in California using ResCNN model
• Classify land cover to measure shrinking lakes
• Count cars in aerial imagery using deep learning
• Detecting Mussel Farms using Deep Learning
• Org Administrators
  • Inventory Organizational Content

Module Changes

arcgis.gis

• GIS
• Adds expiration as an optional parameter to customize lifespan of a token
• User
• Adds expire_password() method
• Addresses ENH-000137836 with landing_page property for customizing start page
• Group
• Adds application() method
• UserManager
• Adds custom messaging to invite() with new message_text parameter
• Addresses ENH-000141984 with additional information in the parameter table descriptions for user_type and level
• ContentManager
  • import_data()
    • Adds service_name parameter to control resulting service name
  • add()
    • Adds Developer Summit Customer Request support for BytesIO and StringIO objects through the data parameter

arcgis.gis.admin

• Adds documentation:
  • EmailManager
  • Indexer
• System
  • Adds indexer property
• License
  • assign()
    • Adds overwrite parameter

arcgis.gis.server

• LogManager
  • Adds ability for query() to return more than 10,000 records
• Server
  • Adds support for creating Server object using profile keyword
• ServiceManager
  • Addresses ENH-000142533 through support for folder name in the JSON used for the service argument to create_service()
• ServicesDirectory
  • Adds documentation to clarify return values for the list() method
    • NOTE: Adds clarification for differences in types returned by other module list() methods
• DataStoreManager
  • federate_data_item()
    • Adds path parameter

arcgis.gis.nb

• New Classes:
  • NBServicesManager
  • NBService

arcgis.gis.workflowmanager

• Updates API to align with ArcGIS Enterprise 10.9.1 release
• New Class:
  • LookUpTable

arcgis.features

• Removes the deprecated SpatialDataFrame class from the API.

NOTE: Code using this class will no longer work.

• FeatureLayer
  • Adds estimates property to return various statistics about the layer
• GeoAccessor
  • Adds error logging to export methods (to_featurelayer() and to_featureclass()) to report on rows that do not export correctly
  • to_featurelayer()
    • Adds service_name parameter based on ArcGIS API for Python Community Idea to control name of output service
    • Adds sanitize_columns parameter

arcgis.features.analysis

• Adds overwrite functionality through the context argument for use in conjunction with the output_name argument for all analysis tools
• use_proximity
  • Adds parameter table to connect_origins_to_destinations

arcgis.features.managers

• ParcelFabricManager
• Adds reassign_features_to_record() method
• Adds analyze_least_squares_adjustment() parameter table
• FeatureLayerCollectionManager
• Addresses ENH-000122763 with support for Tables to create_view()
• Version
  • reconcile()
    • Adds capability to run asysnchronously (using future argument)
    • Adds new parameters:
      • conflict_detection
      • future

arcgis.raster

• Adds documentation for folder parameter to save() methods for:
  • Raster
  • ImageryLayer
• ImageryLayer
  • New Methods:
    • compute_cache_info()
    • compute_angles()
  • New Properties:
    • image_support_data
    • sensor
  • Adds context parameter support for:
    • save()
    • to_features()
  • get_samples()
    • Adds support for slice_id parameter
  • query()
    • Adds support for return_extent_only parameter
  • Adds rendering_rule parameter support for:
    • get_histograms()
    • statistics()
  • Adds support for the envelope geometry type as the geometry argument

arcgis.raster.analytics

• New Functions:
  • summarize_categorical_raster()
  • train_random_trees_regression_model()

arcgis.raster.functions

• New Functions:
  • ccdc_analysis
  • dimensional_moving_statistics()
  • interpolate_raster_by_dimension()
  • landtrendr_analysis()
  • mosaic_rasters()
  • percentile()
• aggregate()
  • Optimizes performance when using PERCENTILE as the aggregate_function argument
• segment_mean_shift()
  • Adds new parameters:
    • boundaries_only
    • max_num_pixels_per_segment

arcgis.raster.utils

• upload_imagery_to_agol_userstore()
  • Adds support for pjg and pzp formats

arcgis.network

• RouteLayer
  • solve()
    • Adds new parameters:
      • return_traversed_edges
      • return_traversed_junctions
      • return_traversed_turns
      • geometry_precision
      • geometry_precision_z
      • geometry_precision_m
• ServiceAreaLayer
  • solve_service_area()
    • Adds new parameters:
      • geometry_precision
      • geometry_precision_z
      • geometry_precision_m
• ClosestFacilityLayer
  • solve_closest_facility()
    • Adds new parameters:
      • return_traversed_edges
      • return_traversed_junctions
      • return_traversed_turns
      • geometry_precision
      • geometry_precision_z
      • geometry_precision_m
  • solve_od_cost_matrix
    • Adds new parameters:
      • geometry_precision
      • geometry_precision_z

arcgis.geocoding

• Adds additional documentation to batch_geocode parameter descriptions and examples

arcgis.geometry

• Addresses ENH-000128519 to allow union() to accept dictionary input for spatial_ref argument

arcgis.geoprocessing

• New Classes:
  • GPService
  • GPTask
  • GPInfo
• Toolbox
  • Adds documentation

arcgis.mapping

• New Classes
  • Working with Map Service Layers
  • EnterpriseMapImageLayerManager
  • VectorTileLayerManager
  • EnterpriseVectorTileLayerManager
  • Working with 3D Maps
    • SceneLayerManager
    • EnterpriseSceneLayerManager
• VectorTileLayer
• Adds export_tiles() method

arcgis.realtime

• New Submodules
• arcgis.realtime.velocity.feeds
• arcgis.realtime.velocity.input
• New Classes
• BasicAuth
• CertificateAuth
• NoAuth

arcgis.apps

• workforce module
  • Assignment
    • Adds ability for async editing to update() if supported
• storymap module
  • NEW VERSION: 2.0
    • New classes to replace deprecated model:
      • StoryMap class
      • Elements: Image, Video, Audio, Embed, Map, Text, Button, Gallery, Swipe, Sidecar, Timeline
  • JournalStoryMap
    • Adds deprecation warning since this is replaced with new architecture

arcgis.learn

• Data Preparation Methods
  • Adds stratify parameter option for prepare_textdata() and prepare_data()
• Object Detection Models
  • Adds test_time_augmentation support
• 3D Models
  • PointCNN
    • predict_h5
      • Updates internal class mapping so works with previous Living Atlas models
      • Adds class_confidence
      • Adds batch support
• Image Translation Models
  • New Class:
    • WNet_cGAN
  • Superresolution
    • Adds smooth blending
  • Pix2Pix
    • Adds documentation and raises an error that model only works with image tile sizes that are multiples of 256
• Pixel Classification Models
• Adds support for test time augmentation and smooth interpolation
• MultiTaskRoadExtractor
  • Adds support for variable tile sizes

Fixes

Guides

• Removal of empty cells in numerous guides
• Get Started
  • Clarifies instructions in Understanding Conda
  • Adds Update note in Installation for ArcGIS Pro 2.5.x and later section in Install and set up
• Deep Learning with ArcGIS
  • Remove empty cells from Geospatial deep learning with arcgis.learn
  • Object Detection Workflow with arcgis.learn
    • Updates parameters in export_training_data
    • Updates path in prepare_data
    • Updates secton title: Once a model has been trained, it can be added to ArcGIS Enterprise as a deep learning package by passing publish=True parameter
• Performing newtork analyses
  • Updates to links and text in Part 6 - Solve Location Allocation

Samples

• GIS analysts and data scientists
• Corrects misspellings in Translating Story Map from one language to another using Deep Learning
• Updates broken link in Extracting Slums from Satellite Imagery in the An example of ArcGIS dashboard tracking slums cell
• Fixes broken data link to naip_item in Detecting Swimming Pools using Satellite Imagery and Deep Learning
• Updates output links in Coastline classification using Feature Classifier

Module Changes

arcgis.gis

• GIS
  • Fixes the passing of tokens for numerous operations when logging in using OAuth2 (using client_id parameter)
  • Updates error messaging when using GIS("home") outside either ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online or Notebook Server environments
  • Fixes an issue with refreshing the built-in token in cases when an error is raised if the GIS is inactive for over 30 minutes
• ContentManager
  • advanced_search()
    • Fixes BUG-000136456 where incorrect paging occured with a large result
    • Fixes BUG-000136242 where incorrect results returned when the max_items parameter is greater than 100
    • Changes as_dict parameter description to Optional
  • clone_items()
    • Fixes Item id referencing in cloned results from arcgis.apps.workforce Version 2.0 Projects
    • Fixes failure when cloning an empty feature service having no extent
    • Fixes failure when generalization of geometries is disabled
  • add()
    • Fixes bug when adding a big data file share item type
• GroupApplication
  • Fixes incorrect documentation for decline() method
• Item
  • Fixes publish() failure for Excel as file_type argument (xlsx and xls format)
  • Fixes BUG-000128231 where dependent_upon() or dependent_to() would return a maximum of 10 items
  • Removes unsupported overwrite parameter from export(). Addresses ArcGIS API for Python Community Post.
  • Fixes download(file_name='filename) to use file_name argument instead of item name
  • Fixes display(Item) in Notebooks to use locale from user's profile to format date values
• UserManager
  • Updates error messaging for create() if user already exists
  • Fixes search() method to return correct results when using provider argument
• User
  • Fixes BUG-000138293 where delete() failed if the User owned any groups
• Group
  • remove_users()
    • Fixes Public Repo #918 so the description of required input matches that of the method

argis.env

• active_gis
  • Fixes issue where values returns None under certain circumstances

arcgis.gis.admin

• CreditManager
  • Fixes BUG-000137704 with new time_frame parameter on credit_usage()
• Bundle
  • Fixes BUG-000127555 where users property returned all users instead of just those assigned the bundle
• EnterpriseUsers
  • Fixes BUG-000123480 where create() fails when pre-creating accounts in ArcGIS Enterprise
• WebhookManager
  • Fixes BUG-000137691 where create() fails to use the number_of_failures and days_in_past arguments
• Webhook
  • Fixes BUG-000137691 where update() failed to alter the number_of_failures and days_in_past components of the deactivation policy
• System
  • Fixes BUG-000127575 where updates using properties do not occur
• License
  • Fixes all() returns an empty list in ArcGIS Enterprise
  • Fixes BUG-000144932 where assign() overwrites existing entitlements

arcgis.gis.server

• DataStoreManager
  • Fixes BUG-000128581 where federate_data_item() returned a TypeError
  • Fixes TypeError: takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given error with method
• ServerManager
  • Fixes BUG-000137276 where get() fails with AttributeError
• DirectoryManager
  • Fixes BUG-000126996 where all() fails to return newly added directories
• SystemManager
  • Updates directories attribute to a property
• Server
  • Fixes BUG-000124523 with additional explanations and examples for initializing functioning objects

arcgis.features

• FeatureLayer
  • query()
    • Fixes failure if object_ids argument passed as a list of integers
    • Fixes Public Repo #1069 issue where query() method returned AttributeError because method assumed existence of objectIdField property
  • append()
    • Updates upsert parameter default to False in method signature
    • Fixes parameter name inconsistency with field_mappings in parameter table
• GeoAccessor - aka Spatially Enabled DataFrame
  • Fixes BUG-000137005 where project() returns False at 1.9.1 when run with environments containing ArcPy
  • Fixes plot() failure when run on Spatial DataFrame created by chaining from query(as_df=True)
  • Fixes failure to raise an Exception when using to_featureclass(overwrite=False) when the feature class exists
  • Fixes Public Repo #293 where all export methods (to_feature_collection(), to_featureclass(), to_featurelayer(), to_featureset(), to_table()) altered the calling Spatially Enabled DataFrame
  • to_featurelayer()
    • Updates title parameter to optional
    • Fixes Public Repo #1068 where non ArcPy environment fails with an AttributeError when dataframe contains null geoemetries
  • Fixes SystemError failure with to_featureclass() in environments with ArcPy
  • Fixes validate() returning incorrect result after sanitize_column_names() run on the dataframe
• FeatureLayerCollection
  • Fixes BUG-000134934 where query_domains() fails with The requested layer (layerId: queryDomains) was not found. (Error Code: 400)
• FeatureLayerCollection
  • upload()
    • Fixes failures in ArcGIS Enterprise for files larger than 9MB
    • Updates return value to an item id value

arcgis.features.managers

• SyncManager
  • Fixes BUG-000130078 where create() did not create a replica with th correct number of features if layer_queries argument was not provided
  • Fixes BUG-000143357 where create(aysnc=True, wait=True) fails on checking Job status
• ParcelFabricManager
  • divide()
    • Updates parameters sent by internal request
    • Updates parameter table
  • analyze_least_squares_adjustment()
    • Fixes parameter table
• FeatureLayerCollectionManager
  • Fixes BUG-000136260 where overwrite() of hosted Tables failed with IndexError: list index out of range
  • Fixes BUG-000134349 where overwrite() of a hosted FeatureLayer on an IWA-authenticated portal returned a Token Required (499) error
  • Fixes BUG-000126935 where create_view() fails to read the origin hosted FeatureLayer pop-up configuration
• FeatureLayerManager
  • Fixes documentation BUG-000137578 by adding note on restrictions for truncate() method
• Version
  • Fixes Object has no schema lock error with differences() method
• AttachmentManager
  • Fixes Error: Large attachment file is not allowed error with [add()](Error: Large attachment file is not allowed) when file size exceeds 10MB
  • Fixes Public Repo #732 where search(as_df=True) crashes on a KeyError if the result has no attachments

arcgis.features.analysis

• Fixes various broken links within API reference documentation
  • overlay_type parameter in overlay_layers()

arcgis.raster

• ImageryLayer
  • Fixes issue where rendering_rule and mosaic_rule were not honored during initialization
  • save()
    • Fixes A general error occured issue when for_viz is True
• RasterCollection
  • Fixes ImportError: cannot import name 'median' from 'arcgis.raster.functions' when using median()
  • Fixes issue where the operator and calendar_field arguments of the following methods were case sensitive for objects created from a raster datastore
    • filter_by_calendar_range()
    • filter_by_attribute()
• Fixes issue where the engine was not set properly in ArcPy environments

arcgis.raster.analytics

• Updates the description of the percentile_interpolation_type parameter for:
  • summarize_raster_within()
  • zonal_statistics_as_table()
• copy_raster
  • Updates md_to_upload parameter name to source_mosaic_dataset

arcgis.raster.functions.gbl

• zonal_statistics()
  • Updates link for additional information
  • Updates the description of the percentile_interpolation_type

arcgis.raster.utils

• upload_imagery_to_agol_userstore()
  • Fixes RuntimeError: No supported files to upload error with valid extensions like idx, bundlx, and mid

arcgis.network

• RouteLayer
  • Fixes issue with solve() failing in an IWA-authenticated GIS

arcgis.geoanalytics

• data_enrichment
  • Fixes AttributeError when calling calculate_motion_statistics()
• find_locations
  • Fixes situation where AttributeError occurs when calling geocode_locations()
• use_proximity
  • trace_proximity_events()
    • Updates entity_id_field documentation to a required parameter
  • create_buffers()
    • Fixes Both 'distance' and 'field' cannot be set at the same time. error when setting a field argument

arcgis.geocoding

• Updates misspelling of max_location to max_locations in parameter table documentation for geocode()

arcgis.geoenrichment

• Fixes get_countries() parameter table documentation

arcgis.geometry

• Fixes missing parameter table for distance() function
• Polygon
  • Fixes BUG-000128761 where feature created from GeoJSON did not properly handle rings with holes

arcigs.geoprocessing

• GPJob
  • Fixes BUG-000128866 where cancel() returns False event though operation succeeds

arcgis.mapping

• Working with 2D Maps
  • WebMap
    • add_layer()
      • Fixes BUG-000127077 when the Web Map definition's operationalLayers itemId differs from the FeatureLayer id
      • Fixes issue where item used as layer argument overwrites the layer name property with the item title property
• Utility Functions for Mapping
  • export_map()
    • Fixes BUG-000136046 where functions fails to properly construct necessary urls

arcgis.realtime

• Fixes misspellings in introductory description
• FeedsManager
  • Fixes items failing with TypeError if user has no feed items

arcgis.widgets

• MapView
  • add_layer()
    • Fixes invalid token issue when using public image services
    • Fixes issue with the autocast renderer not displaying the desired symbology
  • draw()
    • Fixes failure to correctly display custom symbology

arcgis.apps

• dashboard
  • Fixes Data Source error with dashboard items created with widgets referencing hosted FeatureLayerCollections with multiple layers
  • Fixes BUG-000139238 where widget title displayed improperly
  • Fixes add_row() and add_column() to properly orient multiple widgets
  • Indicator
    • Fixes BUG-000142039 where add_filter() method returns Exception: Please provide "start" and "end" values as parameters for an widget
    • Fixes issue where dashboard created with default values would not open if item layer initialized in the widget did not have a field named FID
  • Addresses BUG-00138507 by updating the add_column() parameter table description

arcgis.learn

• Data Preparation Methods
  • Fixes an issue with Classification (Feature(single label), Pixel and Text(single label)) models where the split for training and validation datasets was affecting results when data contained classes with a small numbrer of rows
    • See stratify keyword in prepare_textdata() and prepare_data()
  • prepare_data()
    • Fixes slow performance when dataset_type="PASCAL_VOC_rectanges"
    • Fixes TypeError label_list_from_func() missing 1 required positional argument: 'val_split_pct' issue when path contains multiple folders with multiple labeled tles
  • prepare_tabulardata()
    • Fixes overwrite of the original dataframe for MLModel
• Object Classification Models
  • FeatureClassifier
    • Fixes AttributeError: _emd when saving checkpoints using fit() or save()
    • Fixes IndexError: list index out of range error with predict(visualize=True) for Multilabel RGB .png or .jpg formats
  • Fixes errors with save() method when object created with some types of data for:
    • UnetClassifier
    • PSPNetClassifier
  • Fixes normalization and denormalization issues by using updated statistics for:
    • Pix2Pix
    • Pix2PixHD
    • CycleGAN
• Pixel Classification Models
  • MMSegmentation
    • Fixes display of a solid black chip when inferencing in ArcGIS Pro from model created with data containing non-contiguous classes
    • Fixes KeyError: loss_seg error when calling fit()
• Feature, Tabular and Timeseries models
  • AutoML
    • Fixes predict_proba() if explanatory variables argument in prepare_tabulardata() contains a text field
    • Fixes ValueError when using a dataframe with 20 samples or fewer and an eval_metric argument of r2. See note in API reference description for eval_metric.
    • Fixes failure of from_model() when using dataframe with 20 samples or fewer
    • Fixes peformance issues generating EDA graphs when running with mode="Compete"
    • Fixes Key Error: '[number] not in index' with show_results()
• Image Translation models
  • Fixes issue where working_dir argument in prepare_data() was not saving models in correct location for:
    • Pix2Pix
    • Pix2PixHD
• Object Detection Models
  • MaskRCNN
    • Fixes mismatches for labels and images in multifolder training