Not sure if a blog is required this week so am forging away. This week required the same work as last week, but the criteria and the location were our choice. I briefly considered Durham, NC, but I can't easily get the shapefiles I would like - FGDL.org has a better centralized shapefile inventory than the NC equivalent or than what I could get from Durham. I chose Leon County, NC, largely because it had an interesting rail-trail and a university, Florida State, in Tallahassee. I wanted a location that was close to libraries, to FSU, and to the rail-trail, but also with high median house values.
This provided an interesting conflict because central Tallahassee has low house values (and correspondingly high poverty levels), although this area is close to the uni and near public libraries and the trail. So the result is a tradeoff: which is more desirable: high house values, or the amenities that make life worth living?
I've attached my poster, or at least what I think is a poster, detailing the process and the outcomes.
