I’ve been working on updating the department’s mapbook. Most of the work is straightforward (if a bit tedious). But, a major roadblock (or at least some speed bumps) occurred when trying to use an ESRI resource. My desired task: creating a street index for my mapbook.
After a little Google-jitsu, I found a number of resources. The most promising of these is ESRI’s Fire Run Book. This package provides some nice demos and a copy of ESRI’s Local Government Toolbox-lots of neat things here.
But, before we can play with Create Street Index Report tool, we need a tool called
No problem, a quick download and install later and…then an error:
“reportlab python version 2.7 required, which was not found in the registry”
The answer can be found-along with most other answers, at StackOverflow, who tell us we need to add a registry key so everyone knows where we have Python installed. For me, I needed to add four nested keys, with a final key structure of
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Python\PythonCore\2.7\InstallPath
and a default value of c:\python27
Your values may vary, so as always, please know what you’re doing before you modify your registry settings.
With that change, reportlab installed with no problem. What did cause a problem was the complete lack of numpy on my machine…
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