I concern about "Landmark" to be the important element of landscape among three miniature golf courses. Landmarks can be any kind of form and have many different levels. I would like to create the first level of landmark to be a kind of water watchtower. In between these water watchtowers, there are the second levels of landmarks, which are formed by poles or sculptures. In order to situating those landmarks, I use GIS as the analysis system to search where are the best spots to locate them. I concern six factors in West Philadelphia, which are transportation, flooding, elevation, vacant lots, crime, and points of attraction, and try to combine them to get the final suitable map that indicates the best situation for landmarks.

I got base maps of the transportation ( including bus access and subway access ), flooding, elevation, vacant lots, and crime, analyzed each of them by "reclassify", "find distant" and " neighborhood statistic" and reclassified each of them in level 1 to 10 which means the factors are from good to bad. The lighter area means good and darker area means bad.

Points of attraction are the only one factor that we can't find from the original database. I created the points of attraction map by drawing many dots on West Philadelphia map in order to show where are the attractions and analyzed it by "neighborhood statistic" and "reclassify" again.

Finally I overlapped those maps by "map calculation" and got one final suitable map for landmark. The area with lightest color is the best choice for locating landmark and the area with darkest color means the worse area to locate landmark. According to this final map, I can easily get the reasonable places and put my designs there.