Class Project

Brian McKean

RATIONALE

I was asked by the assistant to the Dean at the school of social work to map all of the field locations where research is being conducted.

RAW DATA - PROBLEMS

Name Agency_Address

Adelane, LLC 601 Taper Dr., Seal Beach, CA, 90740, 562-799-9133

   

African Refugee Service 2149 S. Grand, St. Louis, MO, 63104, 314-577-6880

   

   

Aging Consult PO Box 411063, St. Louis, MO, 63141, 314-346-8545

   

Alaska Network in Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault 130 Seward #209, Juneau, AK, 99801, 907-586-4820

   

Alive - ALT/Living in Violent Environment PO Box 1120, St. Louis, MO, 63105, 314-993-7080

RAW DATA - CLEANED

AGENCY NAME ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIPCODE

Adelane, LLC 601 Taper Dr. Seal Beach CA 90740

African Refugee Service 2149 S. Grand St. Louis MO 63104

Aging Consult PO Box 411063 St. Louis MO 63141

Alaska Network in Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault 130 Seward #209 Juneau AK 99801

Alive - ALT/Living in Violent Environment PO Box 1120 St. Louis MO 63105

BASE MAP USED

ArcGIS StreetMap provides nationwide address matching and street map display. ArcGIS StreetMap layers automatically manage, label, and draw features, such as local landmarks, streets, parks, water bodies, and other features. ArcGIS StreetMap can geocode addresses by interactively matching a single address or by batch matching from a file of addresses.

With ArcGIS 9 StreetMap you can Find addresses anywhere on a street network. Quickly create intelligent maps. Perform simple point-to-point or optimized routing across nationwide

street networks.

ZOOMED IN STREET MAP

Metro St. Louis

“GEOCODING”

“the process of assigning a location, usually in the form of coordinate values, to an address by comparing the descriptive location elements in the address to those present in the reference material. An address includes any type of information that distinguishes a place. With geocoded addresses, you can spatially display the address locations and begin to recognize patterns within the information.”

GEOCODING RESULTS

WHAT I LEARNED

Geocoding is very time consuming if there are problems with your data

I should have given the client the format I needed – provided the column headings

I should have insisted that the client do the research on those addresses ArcGIS couldn’t geocode.

OTHER MAPS I CREATED

OTHER MAPS I CREATED