Practical GIS

Towards some neighborhood analysis

The last criterion that both customers need is that the number of markets in the vicinity of the house should be at least two. This is another type of proximity analysis, as we do not need a binary answer (it is in the proximity of the other feature, or it isn't), we need to count the number of features. Count is one of the most basic statistical indicators in GIS. In my opinion, this step is somewhere between proximity analysis and neighborhood analysis (where we do not even care about proximity, just the distance).

We have several ways to achieve this step. We can buffer the markets without dissolving them, and execute a spatial query with statistics. On the other hand, that is not a clear way to get only ...