Wednesday, July 1, 2009

On Your Own: Site Selection Parameters


I documented the map, set the environments and set the coordinates in the data frame properties before creating the map. I created the 4 insets to show the 4 parameters needed for selecting the best location. The distance from the airport, the distance from the hospital, the percentage of age 50-64 and the median house value in the census tracts was created. I calculated the distance from the airport and hospital and reclassified into 9 categories and interval size of 10,000. I downloaded the median house values from the factfinder website. Then converted the census tracts with the percentage of age and the median house values to rasters.
The viewer will notice that best location will be along the coast, but also near the airport and hospital. The locations near the coast have a high percentage of age 50-64 and high median house values.

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