Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Religious Proximity of Georgetown

This is a depiction of the distances between all of the "religious" addresses which are within Georgetown typical boundaries. The cross symbols represent a religious structure, which is differentiated from a church or religious place of worship by Wilco, and their distance relative to one another is represented by the red-blue spectrum. There is clustering near the center of Georgetown while there are few religious structures near the rural, outskirts of the city. This type of geographic pattern most likely correlates with the city's population density as well as its most traffic-heavy roads. Some possible biases that may be present in this map include the city's boundaries (which could be limiting the number of addresses near the boundaries) and the ambiguous word "religion" used to geocode these addresses that were contained within the shapefile.

Data retrieved from:
http://wilco.org/CountyDepartments/GIS/Data/tabid/532/Default.aspx

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