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This chapter was focused on geocoding and was very short. We learned how to rematch addresses and use other various new tools. Geocoding is the process of converting text-based location descriptions into precise geographic coordinates to plot them as points on a map. This chapter was fairly simple for me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Chapter 9<\/b><\/p>\n This chapter showed us how to use buffers which is a zone around a feature. These are used for drug-free buffers around schools, food deserts, etc. We also learned how to use multiple-ring buffers which are used to create various buffer zones inside each other. We used service areas to estimate a gravity model of geography.<\/span>\u00a0 Chapter 7 This chapter was easy for me and I actually figured out how to use certain features before being told to by the tutorial. This chapter included a lot of practical skills that I think will be useful to know how to do. This includes moving and rotating polygons as the software is not always 100% accurate and so I know this will be useful. It was fun to be able to create a new feature and is a useful skill. Chapter 8 This chapter was focused on geocoding and was very short. We learned how to rematch addresses and use other various new tools. Geocoding is the process of converting text-based location descriptions into precise geographic coordinates to plot them as points on a map. This chapter was fairly simple for me.\u00a0 Chapter 9 This chapter showed us how to use buffers which is a zone around a feature. These are used for drug-free buffers around schools, food deserts, etc. We also learned how to use multiple-ring buffers which are used to create various buffer zones inside each other. We used service areas to estimate a gravity model of geography.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2372,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-course-student-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6848,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6844\/revisions\/6848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2026\/02\/IMG_3911-300x225.jpg\")
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