Does anyone on this board use any of the scripting languages that feed into ARCGIS or other, I'm doing some system design for a field project and I want to kind of quantify just how much processing power I can save by managing my files outside of ARC potentially even creating the shapefiles on the tablets that record data.

The field data is trackfiles which would need to be lightly rinsed or concatenated before being formatted as the vertices of shapefile polygons.

I've seen boomer's just throw everything into ARC to make the smallest changes to the trackfiles to make the shapes cleaner and it strikes me as extremely wasteful of ARC resources especially at scale.

Cheers.,