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King Fahd University of Petroleum and
MineralsCollege of Environmental
DesignDepartment of City and Regional Planning

• Term Project Presentation
• CRP 515
• To
• Dr. Baqer Al Ramadan
• By
• Mohsin Ali Abbasi
• Date 9th May 2000

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Contents

• Introduction
• Problem Statement
• Methodology
• Literature Review
• About ArcView
• Steps of Automation
• Analysis
• Presenting Results
• Conclusion and Recommendation

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Introduction

• This project is about optimum site selection
  using Arc View 3.1 software.
• Attributes data to be used in the study is
  already available with esridata in ArcView.
• Attribute data is of hotels, highways, fourcounty
  and cities.
• A hypothesis is made using different criteria's
  to select site of hotels in Atlanta, USA. But
  data used of Atlanta is real.

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Problem Statement

• A local businessman wants to select a site for
  hotels in Atlanta, USA. The hotel will give a
  good business if it meets the following
  criteria's.
• It should be within 500m of Interstate Highway.
• In order to get customers on regular basis, it
  should be 2000m away from other hotels.
• It should be within 2000m, outside the city. This
  will make customers to stay outside the city and
  the same are within reach of the city.

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Methodology

• To begin any project of GIS, first step is
  collection of the data. This is due to the fact
  that almost 80 of cost and efforts of any GIS
  project are spent in gathering data.
• But fortunately in this project, data collection
  process is avoided, as data for use is already
  available with Arc View.

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Methodology

• To accomplish the above study Arc view 3.1
  software was chosen with PC Platform and Windows
  Operating System.
• For this purpose lab and computing facilities
  available at GIS unit of City and Regional
  Planning Department were utilized.

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Scope and Limitation

• As there is no limitation for quality of a
  particular project and that it can be improved by
  putting more and more efforts and time.
• Hence this project have both limitations of
  quality and quantity.
• As a student, the end product are not expected to
  be professional, but maximum single efforts have
  been made to reach the best level in the limited
  time.
• Efforts have been made to analyze optimum
  selection of hotel site using Arc View 3.1.

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Literature Review

• Geographic Information System (GIS) is entire
  family of highly advanced computer technologies
  dating back almost 30 years.
• GIS is also a multi-billion dollar industry which
  is appearing regularly on top ten lists of
  technologies for the future.
• GIS is a global community of users and
  researchers numbering in the millions, building
  maps and databases in the hundreds of thousands.

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Viewing Layers

• GIS allows a user to view many different layers
  all at the same time. Thus the user can view
  political boundaries, postal codes, census
  tracts, school districts, streets and individual
  parcels.
• Besides using the different layers to show
  different boundaries, GIS can also show natural
  and man-made features such as rivers, lakes,
  highways, gas-lines, sewage lines, hospitals, and
  schools.
• GIS will allow the user to zoom in and out of
  these layers to the very lowest detail, which is
  an individual parcel and also to pan the map.

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Popularity of GIS with private and government
organization

• GIS allows business to perform different types
  of analysis with a lot more ease.
• Some of the ways in which private industry and
  government (mostly in USA) is using GIS
  technology is to determine a new site location
  either for a new business or a franchise.
• By using GIS, the company can make sure that
  there are not too many branches located within a
  specific geographic area. GIS also helps
  companies perform customer analysis, which can
  include where customers live to where they do
  business.

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About ArcView

• ArcView GIS is the world's leading desktop
  geographic information system software.
• Arc View is software developed by Environmental
  System Research Institute (ESRI) located in
  Redlands, California, USA.
• It is windows compatible and incorporates user
  friendly Graphical User Interface.
• Its software comes with ready to use data. That
  is it comes with sample data ranging in scope
  from entire world to an individual city.
• It has got useful customizing option by use of
  its built in Avenue language, which can make
  compatible for most advance users.

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Steps of Automation

• To start with any projects and building a GIS
  database, certain steps are followed. These are
  Setting up of a system, Input of spatial data,
  Editing of spatial data, Input of attribute data,
  Editing of attribute data, Managing database,
  Performing analysis, Presenting results.
• But as mentioned earlier, in this study data is
  available, so only analysis is done.

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Analysis

• Arc View 3.1 is opened with a new project option.
  Then from Add Theme icon, four themes named as
  Hotels, Cities, Counties and Fourcounty (Fulton,
  Cobb, De Calb and Clayton) of Atlanta were added.
  This is shown below with the check mark on the
  themes.

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Buffering

• First buffering of hotels was done from Theme -
  Create Buffer option. When the buffer menu is
  opened, 2000m distance was selected to create
  buffers around hotels. These buffers were created
  for all hotels in Atlanta. Similarly, all cities
  in Atlanta were also buffer in same way, with a
  buffer distance of 2000m. Then buffering of
  Interstate Highway was done. Buffer distance was
  500m.
• After this we get three new Themes as Buffer1 of
  Highways, Buffer1 if cities and Buffer1 of
  Hotels.
• This is shown below

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Union of Themes

• After the buffering process is completed, Union
  of intermediate themes was done. The union was
  done for two themes at a time. First from View -
  go to Geoprocessing Wizard. Then Union of two
  themes, Buffer 1 of Highways and Buffer 1 of
  Hotels were done.
• A new theme called Hhunion1 is formed. Similarly,
  Union of another two intermediate themes, Buffer
  1 of cities and Fourcounty will give a new theme
  called cfunion1. This is shown below.

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Union

• After this finally union of two themes that is
  cfunion1 and Hhunion1 were again used by
  Geoprocessing Wizard to make a union. This union
  will give a new theme.
• This theme is of Hotel. So finally, Using
  Geoprocessing Wizard and Buffers of Arc View 3.1
  Hotel site selection was done.
• This is shown below

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Selection of Hotel

• Next step is to find out that how many hotel
  sites are being selected by Arc View in Atlanta.
• For this query was built to find all areas in the
  Hotel theme that have a given utility measure
  that is bad for the criteria.
• After that Switch Selection is done to get Hotel
  sites in Atlanta. This is shown below

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Presenting Results

• So finally Arc View selects two hundred and fifty
  six sites for hotels across Atlanta from total of
  six hundred and forty nine sites.
• The results of the analysis can be seen in the
  hard copy format in terms of project report,
  drawings and tables.

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Conclusions

• The above method to select an optimum site is
  very useful for Planning Organizations,
  contractors, and real estate agents. This
  technique using Arc View GIS minimizes efforts
  and time to locate a suitable site, giving
  different criteria's, as all analysis is done on
  the desktop.
• This is being widely used in United States,
  Canada and other western countries.
• But the analysis of GIS is not limited to only
  optimum site selection process. There are
  different software of Arc View available to do
  other functions also. These are used in field of
  transportation, archeology, geology, business and
  many other fields also.

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Recommendations

• Before starting a project, one should have a PC
  platform with Arc View 3.1 or 3.2 installed.
• If data is not available, then a team should be
  made to collect data within given time, as data
  collection part of the project consumes almost
  80 of cost and time.
• This data should be ready before starting the
  analysis.

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Thank You