In this week's activity, we use tools in ArcMap that make deciding where to site new locations fairly simple. An introduction to model building and weighted overlay will help us complete specific location decision tasks. Depending on which section of the course you are enrolled you may find a home for a couple moving to Arizona with specific requirements or determine the best site for a radio station in Ohio. Census tract data is utilized and the spatial skills can be applied to countless site-location decisions large and small.
As many of you realize by now, there are many ways of acquiring the same end result. Keep in mind this exercise illustrates just one set of procedures. I encourage everyone to make the project there own by trying new ways of completing tasks and producing one-of-a-kind maps.
