5Discussion and Conclusion

Now... my girlfriend knows which areas of the Lower
Mainland would suit her, if she decides to move to a new
home.

This analysis is by no means perfect. The Street Networks
are a bit off, which creates some problem with exact
locations of places. Operator error can also account for
the misplacement of some points. Some locations, such as
parks, were manually plotted onto ArcView via estimation
and may not be exact.

The statistical information, such as Crime levels and Average
Housing Costs are averages for an entire municipality and
thus are very error prone, although they do allow for the
comparison of different municipalities, which could help
Leigh in choosing a home in one municpality over another.

Problems encountered included long re-indexing times for the
Street Networks File, and the street networks' geocoding
not allowing for locating an address on a numbered street,
such as "6200 121st Street".

Finally, a shortcoming of my analysis may be the fact that
by the time Leigh decides to move to a new home, she may
be working in a different area of the Lower Mainland. Then,
all the distance and transit information for her current workplace
in Richmond would be useless.
 

This project tries to come up with answer(s)
to a Spatial Problem that: (i) concerns me (and my
girlfriend), (ii) for which data can (and was) acquired,
(iii) about which discrete question(s) can (and were)
asked - and answered, and (iv) was manageable. This,
thus, satisfies the requirements for the GEOG355
project.


PS. Here is Leigh's response to my project! :)