Lab 7 Part 2: WIFI and Police Stations Nearest Locations in Boston

This is a map showing how many WIFI stations are near Boston Police Stations.  The table is showing us each Police Station and how many WIFI stations are near it.  What had to be done first was to use the Boston Boundary and add the WIFI Stations and Police Stations CSV files.  After that, using the Find Nearest Tool in ArcGIS Online.  For the distance, I made 1 WIFI stations in 100 miles of the nearest Police Station.  The map shows us these purple points and those are the nearest police stations and the lines represent the closet WIFI Stations.  This data was collected from ESRI.  

Table of Police Stations and WIFI Stations

Map showing the closest WIFI Stations to Police Stations

Lab 7 Part 1: Drive-Time Analyst in Boston (3 minutes)

This is a map of Boston showing 3 minutes of driving with traffic at 5:30 pm and 3 minutes of driving with no traffic.  Using the Boston boundary, I looked at the drive time from the public school in Boston at 5:30 pm at the time of rush hour.  The area in blue is showing the drive time with traffic in blue and the no traffic area is in red.  The area with traffic that you can drive(in blue) is 2.962 kilometers. The area with no traffic (in red) is 3.138 kilometers.  This data was collected from ESRI.

Map of Traffic in Boston

Map of No Traffic in Boston 

Lab 4: Carver, Massachusetts Farm Loss using Rater Data

  For this project, we each had a different town in Massachusetts and we had to calculate the farm loss using Raster Data.  We had a guest speaker Maggie Payne from the NRCS office in Wareham, Massachusetts.  Using data that was collected in 2010, we can see newer data that was collected and see the farm loss in the last 7 years.  The first step was to select a town.  After that, we then had to use the Extract by Mask tool and clips the raster data that we used for this project.  Then I had to extract the data so I was only working with the prime farmland loss in Carver.  In the data set, there us a map unit that had to be joined with my one combined class.  The count number measured in meters had to be multiplied by 100 then converted to square kilometers.  After that, I had to use the Extract by Mask tool again and combine the raster data.   After completing that, we had to figure out the count.  The count number is measured in meters and had to be multiplied by 100 and then converted to square kilometers.  Having done that, I then had to unjoin the map unit data and rejoin the data again to the final raster data set.  Finally, I had to calculate the farmland loss in Carver .  The way you figure that out is to figure the count out again multiply it by 100 and convert it to square kilometers.

Tables 1 & 2

Map of Farm Loss in Carver, Massachusetts

Lab 3: Bicycle Racks on BSU Campus

  For this project, this class gathered data from Bridgewater State University about the bike racks and how many each bike rack can hold.  My partner Erin Doyle and I developed this idea so that students, faculty members and people who are thinking about going to the University can find a bike rack on campus.  When creating the map online, we fist had to create domain fields and feature classes.  After the map information was completed and on ArcGIS Online, we then used our phones and went out to 6 bike racks on campus.  We chose 3 on the East Side and 3 bike racks on the West Side of Campus.  Each point says the team member, number of bikes on one bike rack, the location of the rack either next to a dorm or academic building and the side of campus.  After the points were collected, we synced the map from our phones to the computer.  This way, everyone can see the bike racks, what they look like and where they are located on campus.  The full link for this map is http://arcg.is/2kPta7t. 

Table my Partner and I created                                                                                                                                                 

Click here to see the full map on ArcGIS Online.

     

Lab 2: Environmental Justice in Lynn, Massachusetts

  For this project, I looked at toxins and environmental problems in Lynn, Massachusetts. Looking to see if there were any places in Lynn that were really affected by the toxins or environmental problems.  I was then looking to see how far the toxins have spread out by setting a 2,000 meter buffer.  The first item that I had to do for this project was download the Environmental_Justice file, town_boundaries file and the Toxins_Sites off of the MassGIS website. Then I had to clip the Environmental_Justice file.  After I had to then hand select the toxins because of the 2,000 meter buffer we created.  Finally, I have to clip the buffer for the town to only see the environmental problems in Lynn, Massachusetts.

  The first table for this project show us the total area of the town, the total area of the Environmental Justice (EJ) areas for Lynn, total area of Lynn that is not effected by EJ, the total EJ that is within the 2000 meter buffer, and the total Non-EJ that is in the 2000 meter buffer.  The second table shows us the percent of the the town that is in the EJ, the percent of town that is Non-EJ, percent of EJ area that is in 2000 meter buffer and percent of NON-EJ area within 2000 meter buffer.

Tables 1 & 2                                                                                                              
                           

Map of Environmental Justice in Lynn, Massachusetts                                                                                        


  

Lab 1: Baseball Map Tour 2017

  The map that I have created for a map tour is about Baseball.  When starting this project, I thought about only including Baseball Stadiums.  I have enjoyed the game of Baseball since I was young.  I did not realize that there is more information out there besides at a Major League Stadium. I did include some Major League Baseball Stadiums, but I included some other items about baseball in my tour as well.  Making this map on ArcGIS Online was a lot of fun.  The first thing for this map that we did was pick a topic of interest.  Then we had to create an excel sheet for the latitude, longitude, name of team, an image and a URL link.  We then brought the information from excel to ArcGIS Online and created points.  We configured the popup window to just showing us the team name, the image of the team and the URL link.  

   For the Stadiums that I did included for my tour is Fenway Park home of the Boston Red Sox in Boston, Massachusetts,  PNC Park home of the Pittsburgh Pirates in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Marlins Park home of the Miami Marlins in Miami, Florida, Commercia Park home of the Detroit Tigers in Detroit, Michigan and the final stadium that I chose is Global Life Park in Arlington home of the Texas Rangers in Arlington, Texas.  For the non stadium areas that were chosen, I decided to go back where baseball started in the United States Cooperstown, NY.  In Cooperstown, we have the American Wax Museum where people have created past and current Baseball Players completely out of wax.  The final place on this map that I feel should be in this tour is the National Baseball Hall of Fame.  This is an important piece of Baseball History because here is where all of the greatest baseball players throughout history are selected into the Hall of Fame.

Baseball Tour Map 2017