1. Site Selection Tool Development with ModelBuilder
An Van Delm // // CE697V // Project3
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2. Analytical Process
Problem: select available houses based on the criteria of the family
Criteria: - characteristics of the house
- close to certain commercial/social buildings
- within a reasonable distance to work/school
- fast access to certain roads
Data: geodatabase with housing data (Amelie, Bert, An), commercial activities, social buildings, work/school buildings, roads (source: geodrive)

3. The Process: Offering Possibilities
Housing characteristics → Select by Attributes Priority 1
Houses + Work/School Buildings → Select by Location (“within a distance of…”) (in Series) Priority 2
Houses + Commercial/Social buildings → Select by Location (“within a distance of…”) (in Series) Priority 3
Houses + Roads → Select different types of Roads
→ Buffer Roads separately
→ Intersect Buffers to define common area
→ Select by Location (houses contained by total buffer)
Priority 4
Priority1 + Priority2 + Priority3 + Priority4 → Intersect
→ Optimal selection of houses
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4. House characteristics: Priority 1
Work/School: Priority 2
Commercial/Social: Priority 3
House characteristics: Priority 1
Distance to Roads: Priority 4
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6. Things to keep in mind… Large buffers take a lot of time and memory
Network Analyst does not work on ITAP-computers
Difficulties show up on ITAP machine making a Report (also in course ASM 591F)
ArcGIS has all kinds of missing communication links
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