Final Project: Plano, Texas Exploration

Project Proposal:  Plano, Texas Exploration for Hobbs’

 My final project is a location decision for Mr. and Mrs. Hobbs.  They moved to Plano, TX to retire in April to be closer to their daughter and her family.  They are unfamiliar with the area and have asked me, another daughter, to come up with some geographic information for them.  They have already found their new home but would like to get to know the area better.  They asked for locations of the hospitals, parks, airports, toll roads and any other information that would assist them in becoming acquainted to their new environment.  Locating amenities near the Hobbs’ will provide them with a much clearer picture of the area and help them feel more at home.  Maps and tables are provided to highlight areas like their home in relation to their daughters and the location of the toll roads, hospitals and airports.  Geocoding of farmers markets, museums and other destinations have been included.  GIS analysis of buffered and clipped data to utilize for euclidean distance and weighted overlay analysis has been performed to come up with some areas for the Hobbs' to explore based on their interests.

Final Project: Python

My final project proposal is to locate cities or towns in Texas of a minimum size (thinking 100,000) that are within 50 miles of a major airport that contain a lake or river.  I will need to obtain data for the state of Texas including lakes and rivers as well as airports and population of cities.  Utilizing python script: 1) create a buffer around airports of maybe 50 miles.  2)Clip population data and lake/river data to airport buffers.  3)utilize the results to Create a search cursor to locate cities or towns over 100,000 in population 4)print the list of locations.

First image above is of the printed list of cities/towns with populations over 100,000, that are within 50 miles of an airport and the second is of the printed dictionary containing the name of the city and the population.  Below is an image of the catalog files showing the Clipped cities and NHD in the results folder.