The Vancouver Institute Of Leprechaun Research

Spatial Analysis Background Results and Problems Methodology

Data Sources

All of the background information on leprechauns came from the following web sites as well as some fictional creativity on my part.

http://rosalin.tripod.com/chaun.html

http://members.tripod.com/~pg4anna/Leps.htm

http://showcase.netins.net/web/magicman/lilguys.htm

The reasons for choosing the various criteria for the analysis are described in the Methodology section of the site. All of the data files came from the provided GVRD data in the S drive of the SIS computer lab at SFU or the data set was digitized by hand. All data is in IDRISI format so no converting was necessary. The following table is a summary of the layers that were used, a description of each layer, and how the data was obtained.

Data Layer	File	Description	Sources
GVRD base map	city.rst	Raster layer showing all of the municipalities and islands iof the GVRD	SIS lab
Land use	gvrd_landuse.rst	Raster layer showing all of the land uses, by code and description, in the GVRD	SIS lab
Human habitation	nopeople.rst	Raster Boolean image of areas where nobody lives	SIS lab
Water	water.vct	Vector layer showing rivers, lakes, creeks, and coast line	SIS lab
Roads	allroads.vct	Vector layer showing the roads in the GVRD	SIS lab
50m DEM	gvrd_dem.rst	Raster layer showing the elevation of the GVRD	SIS lab
Shoe stores	repair.cvt	Digitized layer of the three closest shoe rapair stores to the corresponding high density leprechaun regions	Internet business finder and yellow pages
	supply.vct	Digitized layer of the single closest shoe supply store (there are two in the GVRD, but one is closest to all three regiions	Internet business finder and yellow pages

Not all of the shoe repair stores were digitized because there are over 130 locations throughout the GVRD.

These are the original data sources. Any other layers were created using IDRISI Kilimenjaro edition and these original files.