GIS Week 12: Geocoding and Network Analysis

This week in Intro to GIS, we looked at geocoding (locating addresses) and network analysis. We used a TIGER/Line road network file from the US Census Bureau to create an address locator that was used to geocode the addresses from a table of EMS Station locations in Lake County, FL. Most of them matched automatically, but a few had to be located by hand due to discrepancies between the road data and the address table. Then, we chose three of those stations and set up and ran a network analysis to find the fastest route between them. Below is the map that resulted, showing the locations of all the EMS stations along with the best route to get to three selected ones: