Printing: This poster is 48” wide by 36” high. It’s designed to be printed on a large-format printer. Customizing the Content: The placeholders in this poster are formatted for you. Type in the placeholders to add text, or click an icon to add a table, chart, SmartArt graphic, picture or multimedia file. To add or remove bullet points from text, just click the Bullets button on the Home tab. If you need more placeholders for titles, content or body text, just make a copy of what you need and drag it into place. PowerPoint’s Smart Guides will help you align it with everything else. Want to use your own pictures instead of ours? No problem! Just right-click a picture and choose Change Picture. Maintain the proportion of pictures as you resize by dragging a corner. Did You Catch Something? Where to Stand Along Mardi Gras Parade Route A C. Buerger ABSTRACT Using Euclidean raster generation, measurement, and reclassification this project searches for ideal places to stand along Mobile's Parade Route A during Mardi Gras Parades. This projects looks at places determined to be good to stand along Mobile’s (Alabama) Parade Route A. Factors include: distance to bars, distance from trees, and distance to walls. This project was aimed at students so proximity to bars was considered the highest factor. BACKGROUND Mobile, Alabama is the first place Mardi Gras was celebrated in the United States. Though the celebration is not the biggest one in the country today, it remains one with a distinct flavor compared to others. Most parades that take place in Mobile use Parade Route A, or some portion of Route A for a duration of the parade. Thus locating the best spots to stand along Route A has several benefits for other parades that only use a portion of Route A (Routes B, C, and F). A goal of many parade goers is catching throws (beads, moon pies, doubloons, stuffed animals, etc.) and enjoying adult libations. To maximize chances of catching throws, parade goers crowd close to the barricades along the parade route and avoid standing under trees, which may snag throws. Proximity to bars helps to increase the enjoyment of adult libations. OBJECTIVES Identify three spots to watch parades based on: Proximity to Bars (to ease legal access to adult libations) Proximity to walls (to contain throws) Distance from trees and other overhead structures (to increase chances of catching throws) Limited distance from Parade Route A based on throwing distance METHODS Produce Euclidean Distance rasters based on: Distance to bars Distance to walls of buildings Distance from trees Reclassification of distance raster for trees Create weighted raster Figure 4. Weighted raster showing best places to stand along Route A A weighted raster showing calculated distance based on: Distance to bars (60%) Distance to walls of buildings (20%) Distance from trees (20%) RESULTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Stand at Royal Street and St Francis Street. (Good Spot) Stand Along Conception St between Dauphin and Conti Streets. (Very Crowded) Stand at the intersection of Dauphin Street, Spring Hill and Washington Avenues. (Good Spot) Figure 1. Map showing Parade Route A. Figure 2. Raster showing distance from bars. SOURCES Sam Stutsman, University of South Alabama Parade Route A City of Mobile GIS Department All other data Figure 3. Raster showing the distance from trees. The author would like to acknowledge Sam Stutsman and Jennifer Koch. Figure 4. Final Map