Where to Live Within Surrey and Langley, BC.

Introduction
Data Collection
Methodology
Spatial Analysis
Conclusion
Sources
About Me


    The data used for this project was from the GVRD 2001 landuse, streets and municipality shapefiles, and a GVRD 50 meter DEM obtained from the Simon Fraser University's (SFU) SIS lab's S: drive. I also digitized some data within ArcView to add other layers. The software used for this project to perform the data collection and spatial analysis included ArcView GIS 3.3, FME Translator 2003 X2, and IDRISI Kilimanjaro.

    Initially, I opened the 2001 landuse shapefile in ArcView and added the street networks and municipality boundaries. After creating two shapefiles named Surrey and Langley, I used the Geoprocessing Wizard and clipped the landuse and street shapefiles based on these municipal boundaries. The following is a list of the shapefiles created:

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  • Schools
  • Streets
  • Landuse
  • Residential
  • Transportation
  • Idustrial
  • Commercial
  • Water
  • Parks
  • Undeveloped
Surrey and Langley
Surrey Langley DEM

     The schools shapefile I digitized myself after referring to online maps from the school district's webpage - namely, School District #35 (Langley) and School District #36 (Surrey).

    After all of the shapefiles were completed, I converted them into IDRISI Vector Format using FME 2003 X2. The projection used for the base files was UTM83 Zone 10 and was maintained in the translation for all files. Using IDRISI Kilimanjaro, all of the above-mentioned files, once in IDRISI vector format, were converted into raster format using the Macro Modeler.




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GEOG 355 Term Project
November 2003