ArcInfo

ArcInfo is the flagship GIS product of ESRI and it's custom ArcInfo Macro Language (AML) is the primary means of scripting and automation. However because ArcInfo is command line based, scripting is also possible from the operating system shell or in conjunction with other scripting tools like perl, tcl or python, though that is not seen as often.Note that beginning with ArcInfo v8 (aka ArcGIS) the primary scripting language is becoming Visual Basic for Applications (VBA).

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Eykamp's GIS Tools - Explanations of scalebars, embedding perl code, passing parameters, and distributed backups.
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Map Gallery Macro - Launches a menu for user input, makes a screen capture of an Arcplot window, creates a GIF image and copies it to a directory on the web server, then adds a link to the index file. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center.
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Dave and Harvey's Slope Stability Package - This tool collection calculates slope stability for a Digital Elevation Model.
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Rocky Mountain Mapping Center Software Library - A variety pack including DEM and DOQ conversion, hillshades, mosaicking, clipping, plotting, scalebars, and UTM Zone determination.
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Converting GIS data from GRASS to ArcInfo - Grass2Arc and Grass2Grid for converting v4.x GRASS data files to ArcInfo. Unix based, 1996.
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