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Data Collection

The majority of the data came from the S: drive in the SIS network under the Data Warehouse folder. Dissemination areas, census, landuse and transportation routes were collected from this source. Other sources of data came from the internet. Although the volleyball facility can be used by all ages, I have specifically focused on a specific age group (15 to 39) which I thought that are high participants of volleyball and are most likely to use the facility.

Landuse is important because we want to build on appropriate land. Therefore, the areas that were considered suitable were undeveloped land, industrial, institutions, and commercial/residential mixed.

Transportation is also important because people may want easy accessible transportation from one place to another. Therefore, the factor of bus routes, skytrain stations, and major roads were important for the suitability of the volleyball facility in Burnaby.

The 2001 Census data was available in the S:drive. The census data was extracted according to the total population by sex and age from ages 15-39. In order to calculate the total population between ages 15 to 39, a common primary key (DAUID) was needed. A join was created using ArcGIS between the shape and the database file.

Secondary data collection was through the internet. I have researched the areas in Burnaby that have current volleyball leagues and drop-ins. This is considered as a factor which contributes to the suitability of building a facility in Burnaby. However, the research is limited because there is not enough data and knowledge on all the volleyball demographics and the locations.

Geocoder was an important tool as it imported data points into ArcMap. Geocoder takes the address or postal code and converts it into longitude and latitude format. This database file was created in Microsoft Excel and was inserted into ArcMap. The points were re-projected from World WGS 1984 into NAD 83 UTM 10N.

Population density of ages 15 to 39 was calculated by adding both the male and female populations divided by the population of Burnaby.

The projection for the shape files are projected using NAD 83 UTM 10N.

The next step of data collection is to convert the ESRI shape files to IDRISI vector layers. This was done using the import function in IDRISI. All the layers are projected using UTM-10N. The vector layers are then converted in raster layers using macro modeler with the POLYRAS, LINERAS, and POINTRAS modules. click to view macro modelor. After they have been rasterized, the images were clipped into the Burnaby region using the WINDOW function.