Creating Spatial Feature Classes Based on Proximity, Overlay, and Attributes - Introducing Geographic Information Systems with ArcGIS - page 442

Exercise 7-8 (Project)

Finding a Site for the Wildcat Boat Facility

You will recognize this problem as the one you solved by manual means at the beginning of Chapter 1.
Throughout the text, you have experimented with the data. In Exercise 7-7, you made the buffers around
the streams and sewers that were required. In this exercise, you finish the work of finding suitable
sites. To restate the problem:

Wildcat Boat Company is planning to construct a small testing facility and office building to evaluate new
designs. They've narrowed the possibilities down to a farming area near a large lake. The company now
needs to select a specific site that meets the following requirements:

❏ It must reside on soils suitable for construction of buildings. (The value of the soil

suitability must be 2 or 3.)

❏ The site should not have trees (to reduce costs of clearing land and preserve an important

natural resource). A regional agricultural preservation plan prohibits conversion of
farmland. The other land uses (urban, barren, and wetlands) are also out. So, the land
cover must be “brush land” (which has Landcover code 300).

❏ A local ordinance designed to prevent rampant development allows new construction only

within 300 meters of existing sewer lines.

❏ A recent national water quality act requires that no construction occur within 20 meters of

streams.

❏ To provide space for building and grounds the site must be at least 4000 square meters

in size.

The data sets for this exercise, including the buffers you made in the preceding exercise, are in

____IGIS-Arc\ YourInitials \Wildcat_Boat_Data.

This folder contains the personal geodatabase feature classes that describe the area from
which the site must be chosen. Your assignment is to present a map showing all the areas that
meet the requirements stated in the preceding list. Those areas should be contained in a single
feature class named Final_Sites in your feature dataset:

___IGIS-Arc\ YourInitials \Wildcat_Boat_Data\Wildcat_Boat.mdb\Area_Features

1. Start ArcCatalog. Show ArcToolbox. Make or confirm a folder connection with
___IGIS-Arc_ YourInitials \Wildcat_Boat_Data

2. In ___IGIS-Arc\ YourInitials \Wildcat_Boat_Data\Wildcat_Boat.mdb\Area_Features

you should find the following feature classes:

❏ Landcover

❏ Sewers_buf