DATA ACQUISITION / PREPARATION

In order to sucessfully determine location suitability for a Doggy Cafe in Vancouver City, the apprOpriate data would have to be located. By using the Constraints and Factors identified by the intial research, the data needed to preform the suitability queries could be located.

CONSTRAINTS:

CONSTRAINT	DATA AQUISITION	PROPERTIES
Location within Vancouver City	Simon Fraser University SIS Lab - S:\Data Warehouse\City of Vancouver	Data Type: Shapefile Feature Class Shapefile: D:\Temp\Final Project\ArcMap\City of Vancouver\area.shp Geometry Type: Polygon Projected Coordinate System: NAD_1983_UTM_Zone_10N Projection: Transverse_Mercator False_Easting: 500000.00000000 False_Northing: 0.00000000 Central_Meridian: -123.00000000 Scale_Factor: 0.99960000 Latitude_Of_Origin: 0.00000000 Linear Unit: Meter Geographic Coordinate System: GCS_North_American_1983 Datum: D_North_American_1983 Prime Meridian: 0 Angular Unit: Degree
Commerical or Commerical/Residential Zoned areas	Simon Fraser University SIS Lab - S:\Data Warehouse\GVRD Landuse	Data Type: Shapefile Feature Class Shapefile: D:\Temp\Final Project\ArcMap\GVRD Landuse\gvrd_2001_landuse.shp Geometry Type: Polygon Projected Coordinate System: NAD_1983_UTM_Zone_10N Projection: Transverse_Mercator False_Easting: 500000.00000000 False_Northing: 0.00000000 Central_Meridian: -123.00000000 Scale_Factor: 0.99960000 Latitude_Of_Origin: 0.00000000 Linear Unit: Meter Geographic Coordinate System: GCS_North_American_1983 Datum: D_North_American_1983 Prime Meridian: 0 Angular Unit: Degree

FACTORS:

FACTOR	DATA AQUSITION	PROPERTIES
Locations that are close to Public Transit - Skytrain Stations	Simon Fraser University SIS Lab - S:\Data Warehouse\Translink\Translink_2003\SkyTrain	Data Type: Shapefile Feature Class Shapefile: D:\Temp\Final Project\ArcMap\Translink\Translink_2003\SkyTrain\skytrain stations.shp Geometry Type: Point Projected Coordinate System: NAD_1983_UTM_Zone_10N Projection: Transverse_Mercator False_Easting: 500000.00000000 False_Northing: 0.00000000 Central_Meridian: -123.00000000 Scale_Factor: 0.99960000 Latitude_Of_Origin: 0.00000000 Linear Unit: Meter Geographic Coordinate System: GCS_North_American_1983 Datum: D_North_American_1983 Prime Meridian: 0 Angular Unit: Degree
Locations that are close to Public Transit - Bus Route	Simon Fraser University SIS Lab - S:\Data Warehouse\Translink\Translink_2003\Sept 2001 Bus Routes	Data Type: Shapefile Feature Class Shapefile: D:\Temp\Final Project\ArcMap\Translink\Translink_2003\Sept 2001 Bus Routes\Sept_2001_All_Routes.shp Geometry Type: Line Projected Coordinate System: NAD_1983_UTM_Zone_10N Projection: Transverse_Mercator False_Easting: 500000.00000000 False_Northing: 0.00000000 Central_Meridian: -123.00000000 Scale_Factor: 0.99960000 Latitude_Of_Origin: 0.00000000 Linear Unit: Meter Geographic Coordinate System: GCS_North_American_1983 Datum: D_North_American_1983 Prime Meridian: 0 Angular Unit: Degree
Locations that are close to Parks	Simon Fraser University SIS Lab - S:\Data Warehouse\City of Vancouver	Data Type: Shapefile Feature Class Shapefile: D:\Temp\Final Project\ArcMap\City of Vancouver\parks.shp Geometry Type: Polygon Projected Coordinate System: NAD_1983_UTM_Zone_10N Projection: Transverse_Mercator False_Easting: 500000.00000000 False_Northing: 0.00000000 Central_Meridian: -123.00000000 Scale_Factor: 0.99960000 Latitude_Of_Origin: 0.00000000 Linear Unit: Meter Geographic Coordinate System: GCS_North_American_1983 Datum: D_North_American_1983 Prime Meridian: 0 Angular Unit: Degree
Locations that Dogs can chase objects - Bike Route	Simon Fraser University SIS Lab - S:\Data Warehouse\City of Vancouver	Data Type: Shapefile Feature Class Shapefile: D:\Temp\Final Project\ArcMap\City of Vancouver\bikeway.shp Geometry Type: Line Projected Coordinate System: NAD_1983_UTM_Zone_10N Projection: Transverse_Mercator False_Easting: 500000.00000000 False_Northing: 0.00000000 Central_Meridian: -123.00000000 Scale_Factor: 0.99960000 Latitude_Of_Origin: 0.00000000 Linear Unit: Meter Geographic Coordinate System: GCS_North_American_1983 Datum: D_North_American_1983 Prime Meridian: 0 Angular Unit: Degree
Locations that are near a Veterinary office	www.canada411.yellowpages.ca	5999 W. Blvd Vancouver, BC 5696 Fraser St. Vancouver, BC 1893 Cornwall Ave. Vancouver, BC 2132 Alberta St. Vancouver, BC 9887 Oak St. Vancouver, BC 1635 W. 4th Vancouver, BC
Locations that are not close to mainstreets	Simon Fraser University SIS Lab - S:\Data Warehouse\City of Vancouver	Data Type: Shapefile Feature Class Shapefile: D:\Temp\Final Project\ArcMap\City of Vancouver\mainsts.shp Geometry Type: Line Projected Coordinate System: NAD_1983_UTM_Zone_10N Projection: Transverse_Mercator False_Easting: 500000.00000000 False_Northing: 0.00000000 Central_Meridian: -123.00000000 Scale_Factor: 0.99960000 Latitude_Of_Origin: 0.00000000 Linear Unit: Meter Geographic Coordinate System: GCS_North_American_1983 Datum: D_North_American_1983 Prime Meridian: 0 Angular Unit: Degree

After the data was identified and located, measures needed to be taken to prepare the data, so that it could be brought into IDRISI and used to conduct a Multi Criteria Evaluation.

The Following procedures were conducted within ArcMap:

A query was conducted on the gvrd_2001_landuse file to extract only the landuse codes for Vancouver City. The selected features were then extracted and a new layer was created. This layer was converted into Raster folmat as described below.

All data obtained from the Simon Fraser University SIS Lab was in a Vector File Format. Each data layer was brought into ArcMap and converted into a Raster format using the Conversion tool "To Raster - Feature to Raster" and "From Raster - Feature to ASCII". All data was converted using a 43 meter resolution.

At this point, the data was then brought into IDRISI and Raster Layers were created.

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