Join us for our September meeting where member Ann Stark (GIS Manager for the City of Bellingham) will be showing us how to use python to quality check your data. During our yearly member survey, Python was one of the top 3 topics WWGT members wanted to learn more about. Thank you Ann for sharing your knowledge and workflows!

The City of Bellingham uses python scripts to run quality checks on feature classes to make sure that feature edits don’t create illogical conditions.  The most extensive check is for addressing data, searching for things like addressing marked as a unit address but no unit specified, or an address marked as a Bellingham address, but not falling within the city limits. In total, there are 29 logic checks that are completed in the script.  After running the logic checks, the results are emailed to the editors, and they can take action to correct any issues identified.  In this presentation, Ann will show how we use python and a JSON configuration file to manage this script and the email output it creates.  She will also touch on other topics like using a python script template, logging script outputs, emailing users, generally how python is used at the City of Bellingham.  There will be lots of time for questions.

Ann Stark has been using python to manage GIS tasks for 15 years at the City of Bellingham.  She is a self-taught Python coder with years of hands-on scripting experience. Ann brings humor and an engaging teaching style and has earned a reputation as a dynamic and enjoyable educator. Being self-taught, she remembers the pitfalls of getting started in a solo environment and can offer advice on how to grow your skills.

This is a virtual event, please email wawomeningis@gmail.com to request the meeting link.