Project 4 - Report Week
Final Presentation - South Plainfield, NJ Food Deserts
GIS 4930
For my Final Project in GIS 4930 I finished out the class with the wrapping up of my project as a whole. This week I was asked to create a PowerPoint Presentation to display the Analysis of Food Deserts in South Plainfield, New Jersey. I utilized the same concepts and principles we used in the previous weeks to produce not only a static map within QGIS, but also a webmap utilizing Tilemill, Mapbox, and Leaflet.
In addition, I became more familiar with how to add plugins into my leaflet code. This took a little more time than I anticipated as I had to do quite a bit of research online and working with colleagues to produce the results. In the end, I was able to add a full screen plugin, along with a Mini Map interface on my webmap. These new plugins along with the earlier Geo Locator tool plugin allowed the users of my map to work with the map.
As you will see in my results, I found that a large area of South Plainfield, New Jersey is located with a food desert. This is primarily due to a lack of a quality grocery store on the western side of town. If you look at the map below you can see the area has been identified using a color ramp to highlight the population density affected by this Food Desert phenomenon.
Please feel free to take a look at my Presentation below. In it I go into greater detail about the methods used to identify these food deserts as well as highlight what I believe can be done to minimize their existence in the local area.
My webmap can also be accessed at:
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