North Attleboro Fire Department, Response Times

This map show the response times for the North Attleboro Fire Stations.  The response times are based on the location of the 3 fire stations and the square mileage of the town.  The map also includes analysis if the town was to cut one of its fire stations and how this cut would affect the response times through out the town.

St. Mary Abbey, Franklin Ma - Turbine Project

St. Mary's Abbey in Franklin wants to upgrade their small wind turbine.  The newer model would generate more power, but it is significantly taller than the existing turbine.  Property owners in Franklin and Wrentham are opposed to the installation of a 120 meter turbine.  The residents believe that a turbine of this height would ruin their aesthetic views and disintegrate property values.  The analysis was performed considering two separate styles of interpretation that would visually explain where in Franklin and Wrentham residents would be able to see the wind turbine. The examination looked at visibility from a 30, 60, 90 and 120 meter height.   The separate interpretations are based upon a Bare Earth visibility analysis, in which no vegetation would exist within the surrounding locations.  The other was built with Vegetation obscuring the visibility within the analysis, whereas forests and forested wetland heights were incorporated into the study.

Services Areas of MA Community Colleges

The advantages of geocoding and generating service areas are, first a business could take their customer’s information and create a map based upon their location/address. Second once the map is created, the business can use the map to generate a service area within a set distance.  This will enable the business to visually see where their customers travel from or create new marketing ideas that would target areas shown on the map that are not within a set distance from the business.  

This map was created by Generating Service Areas of the Community Colleges in MA.  The map shows a 20 mile radius from the colleges in which it can service.

 

The majority of community colleges that are well within the 20 mile radius are located in Eastern Massachusetts. Most of these colleges overlap one another which increase the accessibility to attend college.  The community colleges that are located from Worcester to Western Massachusetts can service most of the larger populations within this area but not all areas have access to a college.  

This map indicates several options for the Community Colleges of Massachusetts.  First, the state could close two possible locations in the Boston area, due to the excessive overlapping. Second, relocate the two colleges in Eastern Ma to areas within Western Ma that are not currently serviced by an existing community college. Lastly, create satellite campuses in the locations that are outside the 20 mile radius of the existing community colleges in western Massachusetts and also take into consideration obtaining locations that are accessible to Interstate and US Highways.  

Massachusetts Community Colleges

Geocoding Project

Geocoding which is another term for address mapping is a process that converts data by using either the address or the name of a place.  Geocoding will take this information and mathematically convert the data into geographic features which can be used on a map to visually analyze patterns in the data.  

This map was created by Geocoding the addresses of the 15 Community Colleges in MA, also added was the 2010 population data from MassGIS, and the MA DOT roads data.  With the addition of this data, the map can clearly compose a story of where the Community Colleges are located in relation to population size of the towns and their accessibility to Interstate and US Highways.