The purpose of this assignment is to help you start thinking about the types of GIS functions you might need to use for your final project.
There is a dropbox for this assignment or you can email it. If you add it to your blog, please email me so I know to check your blog.
Your final prospectus must have these three components:
1.Your geographic problem or question
2.Your materials (data sources)
Now that you’ve completed lab 5 you should know what data sources you will be using. Maybe you couldn’t find what you were looking for originally, but you found some other data.
3.Your methods
For each data source, describe how you plan to use it in GIS. Here's an example:
- Roads: buffer by 200 meters to simulate road expansion
- Landuse: intersect with road buffer, find type of land use that would be most greatly impacted by road expansion
- Big game crucial winter range: find land ownership using Identity and then summarize area of land ownership by public and private categories
- Restaurant locations: use address matching to create points for all restuarants in Laramie, then use "nearest neighbor" function to analyze spatial pattern and identify clusters
