Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Location Decisions: Homing in on Alachua County

This week we learned about using the Weighted Analysis tool to help in decision making by ranking specific attributes and then "weighing" them against one another.  Map 1 is just a basic basemap of Alachua County, Florida.
Map 1

Map 2 is the setup for the weighted analysis.  Each of the four criteria are ranked and converted to a raster file.
Map 2

Map 3 is the results of our weighted analysis.  The left map was created using equal weights for each of the criteria.  In the right map, the weights were altered giving more priority to the distances from NFRMC and UF.

Map 3

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