Week 12 -GIS - Geocoding and Network Analysis

Geocoded EMS locations and an Optimal Route

This week in Intro to GIS we learned about how addresses can be put into a code, or geocoded, in order to be used in GIS.  In this case, we had a spreadsheet listing the street addresses of some Emergency Medical Services facilities in Lake County, Florida.  We created an Address Locator coding tool and then placed their locations onto an edge map from the US Census TIGER site.

We then used the Network Analyst tools in ArcMap to plot out an ideal route from one of the EMS locations to two other locations in the mapped area.  This route is the optimal route, taking into account the characteristics of streets and junctions along the way, and computing the estimated time it will take.