Mapping of the

Emergency Response Teams

to the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Venues

Methodology

    Locality of both the fire departments and police departments are very important if something were to happen during the Olympis games.  However they may be further from some of the venues and finding the quickest routes to the venues are very important. 

Before I was able to conduct my spatial analysis, I needed to digitize the locations for the major hospitals in the GVRD.  As well I had to digitize the indoor Olympic Venues, as well as the police departments closest to these venues.  And I also had to digitize all of the firehouses located within Vancouver and Burnaby.  This was by looking up the street addresses for each of these locations as well looking a points on maps to get an estimate on where each of these points are located.  So I needed to refer to the street network data to give a rough estimate on where these points are located.  But to do that, I first needed to convert my streets data  into Raster format.  I then digitized all the points I needed in Vector format, and converted the Vector data into Raster The to convert the vector polgons, lines and points, I used POLYRAS, LINERAS, POINTRAS functions.   Here is the cartographic model showing the process of converting the files from vector to raster.


Cartographic Model showing the conversion of the GVRD vector file to raster.


Cartographic model showing the conversion of the streets vector


Image showing the conversion of the GVRD vector to raster


 Image showing the converson of the street network vector to raster.

Map 1: Map of all the Municipalities in the GVRD

Map 2
Map showing locations of the indoor Olympic Venues Greater Vancouver

Map 3:
Location of Fire Departments in Vancouver and Burnaby.

Map 4:
Location of Police Departments in Vancouver, West Van, North Van, Burnaby, and New Westminster.

Map 5:
Location of major hospitals in the GVRD.

Map 6: Street Network in Greater Vancouver

On to Spatial Analysis

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