11.520: A Workshop on Geographic Information Systems |
11.188: Urban Planning and Social Science Laboratory |
Due: Nov. 5th, 2007
Your Name: | ________________________________ |
Your Athena Username: | ________________________________ |
1. Please write a brief (few sentence) description of
an interesting cluster pattern for bookstore locations within Cambridge.
2. Create and attach a labeled and annotated map supporting your
description in Question 1.
3. How many children aged-5-and-under do you estimate
were living within 2/3 mile of Ames Street based on the 2000 census?
4. Make a map showing Ames Street and the 2/3 mile buffer
on top of a block group thematic map of children aged-5-and-under. Instead of
mapping the 'number of children,' you will want to map the density
of children in the original block groups. Do you see why? Label one of the larger
block groups that partially overlaps your buffer with the percentage of the
block group that is within 2/3 miles of Ames Street.
5. Briefly describe the difference between the output themes (that is, the shapefiles) produced by using the union and intersect operations to combine two polygon themes.
Both maps and the answer sheet should be submitted via Stellar. Your maps may either be in grayscale or, preferably, in color; just make sure they are
readable.
Created by Raj Singh.
Modified for 1999-2006 by Thomas
H. Grayson, Joseph Ferreira, Jinhua Zhao, Xiongjiu Liao, and Diao Mi.
Last modified 26 October 2007 by Joe Ferreira.