Data Collection

    Some of the data for this spatial analysis are obtained from the SIS drive and some are retrieved from the Statistic Canada.  The data, like the other competitors of dog daycare business, dog-grooming and pet hospitals, are searched from the website of mybc.ca, as the postal codes are needed for converting the data into Access or Excel and saved them into a (.dbf) file before importing to Arcview.  With using joining the tables of postal codes, with the LDU shapefiles, in Arcview, another shapefiles would be created. 

   Since the data from SIS drive are used for GVRD, what I needed is the Tri-cities only, so I have to clip the Tri-cities areas and to convert them into another shapefiles before using.  I also have to focus on the projection that I used before importing into IDRISI.  If using different projection on each maps, there would be errors. 

    As most of the data are the vector formats in Arcview, the process of importing the vector shapes from Arcview to IDRISI took me a longer time to do so, and I have to convert these vector files into the raster files in IDRISI.  Therefore, before analyzing the data, the complicated processes are needed to work on. 

The vector and raster layers that used are:

References:

http://persweb.direct.ca/blondie/dogtown/hotels.htm

http://www.camelot-petcare.com/

Statistic Canada

Information from Coquitlam City Hall

Pictures Source:

http://www.thedog-club.com/japanese_index.html