Monday, April 15, 2013

Conclusions



  • Youth organizations are more likely to be within the boundaries of the buffer zones.
  • Religious centers and cultural centers are also more likely, however, this could be because most child-friendly areas (schools) are within some sort of urban area/town/city
  • parks and gardens are not geared toward children; they are more location-based

Sunday, April 14, 2013

Map 5 (final) - zoomed in





This is a zoomed in version of our final map.
Keys can be found with the previous post.

Map 5 (final)





This is our final map including legend, scale, etc. We changed the map's colors in order to see each individual data point more clearly as well as the colors of the parks and gardens and cultural center polygons to help make them more defined.

Map 4






This was the next stage of our map. We clipped and removed all religious centers, youth organizations, cultural centers, and parks and gardens outside of the child friendly zones.

Map 3




At this point we merged the location data of all schools within the same zip code as a way to condense the data.

Map 2



We determined that the child friendly zones would be up to 3 miles surrounding each school, however many schools were so close to each other that the zones were too clustered to exclude any particular places.
We removed urban clusters at this stage since it was irrelevant to our pilot study. 
Parks and gardens were also included at this stage since we determined that they had the potential to be child friendly.

Map 1

This was our initial map with raw data. The large green zone surrounding Gainesville is a "urban zone" as classified by Alachua County. Every individual school, youth organization, cultural center, and religious center is seen on this map. Parks and gardens of the county were not included at this stage.
Next we plan on determining "child friendly" zones in the county.