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Retirement Location Suitability

Retirement Location Suitability. Where should Mom and Dad spend their golden years?. Goals. To create a suitability map to determine the ‘best places’ to retire based on certain factors

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Retirement Location Suitability

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  1. Retirement Location Suitability Where should Mom and Dad spend their golden years?

  2. Goals • To create a suitability map to determine the ‘best places’ to retire based on certain factors • Utilize ArcGIS ModelBuilder to create a model that can be used to vary input factors as well as importance and rankings Use Weighted Overlay tool

  3. Objectives • Determine factors and preferences • Gather, clean, manipulate data • Build model • Evaluate model and results Iterate as necessary

  4. Input Factors • Summer Relative Humidity • Summer Temperature • Winter Relative Humidity • Winter Temperature • Asian population • Earthquake events

  5. Vector Raster

  6. Earthquakes?

  7. Input Raster 1 Input Raster 2 Output Raster Weighted Overlay Example 2*0.75 + 3*0.25 = 1.50 + 0.75 = 2.25 (rounded to 2) source: ESRI ArcGIS website

  8. Classified Rasters

  9. And the winners are…

  10. Future Considerations • Hurricanes • Crime rate • Distance to city with population > 50,000 (city limits) must be < 50 miles • Property tax • Sales tax

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