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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 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 • 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
Objectives • Determine factors and preferences • Gather, clean, manipulate data • Build model • Evaluate model and results Iterate as necessary
Input Factors • Summer Relative Humidity • Summer Temperature • Winter Relative Humidity • Winter Temperature • Asian population • Earthquake events
Vector Raster
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
Future Considerations • Hurricanes • Crime rate • Distance to city with population > 50,000 (city limits) must be < 50 miles • Property tax • Sales tax