GIS: From Introduction to Advanced tools of ArcGis: January 2011

Geocoding is an important tool for GIS analysis. Using the Geocoding toolbar,
users can create list of features and things by their own also of items and tendencies that other people never mapped and addressed before. This is extremely important when analyzing fields of studies never studied before, because locations are usually not organized in databases such as googlemaps or other public websites.
Geocoding function of Arcgis is a basiliar tool of neogeography as well as for enterprises or research individuals and institutes, who are able in this way to keep a geolocated list of objects, from customers to animal species.

In this representation, the study has been focused, as an example, to the distribution of Public Libraries within the West Los Angeles area and next to UCLA campus. With a Geocoding process, the addresses have been added to a Geodatabase and then displayed into a map layer that shows all the streets and freeways of Los Angeles County.
A very useful tool has been the buffering tool of Arc Tool Box, which has been employed in the Multiple Ring version in order to show distances within 250, 500 and 1,000 meters from the Libraries' location. Maps like this, could be very useful for students or library users who live in the area and have to decide where to go considering factors such as the opening times, or at the moment of deciding the location of your new personal room.

Finally, the Annotation and the transparency functions have been used to do not create confusion and unconformity by leaving a 40% transparency to the buffer rings' colors and showing the name of the displayed library only in scales larger than 1:60,000, as it is possible to see in the maps.

Large Scale Map = 1:60,000 with Annotations

Small Scale Map = 1:150,000

NAME, ADDRESS

Westwood Branch Library ,"1246 Glendon Avenue, Los Angeles, CA "
Brentwood Branch Library ,"11820 San Vicente Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA "
Blumentha l Library ,"10400 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA "
Santa Monica Public Library ,"601 Santa Monica Boulevard, Santa Monica, CA "
UCLA Law Library ,"385 Charles E. Young, Los Angeles, CA "
Archive of Popular American Music ,"1102 Schoenberg Hall, Los Angeles, CA "
Getty Center ,"1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles, CA "
West Los Angeles Regional Library ,"11360 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA "
Rosenfeld Library ,"110 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA "
Los Angeles City Library ,"2920 Overland Avenue, Los Angeles, CA "
West Hollywoo d Public Library ,"715 North San Vicente Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA "
UCLA Instruction al Media ,"46 Powell building, Los Angeles, CA "
Simon Wiesentha l Center ,1399 Roxbury Drive
Margaret Herrick Library ,"333 S La Cienega Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA "
Santa Monica College Library ,"1900 Pico Boulevard, Santa Monica, CA "
Barrister Research Library ,"1801 Century Park E 2500, Los Angeles, CA "
Montana Avenue Library ,"1704 Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, CA "
Southern Regional Library ,"305 De Neve Drive, Los Angeles, CA "
LA County Law Library ,"93355 Burton Way, Beverly Hills, CA "
Robertson Library ,"1719 South Robertson Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA "
Mar Vista Branch Library ,"12006 Venice Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA "
Jewish Communit y Library ,"6505 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA "
Cedars-Sin ai Medical Center Library ,"444 S San Vicente Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA "
Geology & Geophysic s Collection ,"4697 Geology Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA "
St John's Hospital Library ,"1328 22nd Street, Santa Monica, CA "
TDI Library Services ,"11340 W Olympic Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA "
Beverly Hills City Library ,"444 North Rexford Drive, Beverly Hills, CA "
Cook's Library ,"8373 West 3rd Street, Los Angeles, CA "
Seletracks Library ,"10327 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA "
Goether Institute Los Angeles ,"5750 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA "
Mayme Clayton Library ,"4130 Overland Avenue, Culver City, CA "
LA84 Foundatio n Library ,"2141 West Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA "
Walt Disney Co. Library ,"500 South Buena Vista Street, Burbank, CA "
Abbot Kinney Memorial Branch Library ,"501 South Venice Boulevard, Venice, CA "
Rand Library ,"1776 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA "
Dick Clark Movies Library ,"2900 Olympic Boulevard, Santa Monica, CA "
The Film and Music Company Library ,"12233 Olympic Boulevard, Santa Monica, CA "
Buena Vista Library ,"300 North Buena Vista Street, Burbank, CA "
Memorial Branch Library ,"4625 West Olympic Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA "
Pio Pico Library ,"694 South Oxford Avenue, Los Angeles, CA "
Gonda Family Library ,"330 Charles E Young Drive North, Los Angeles, CA "
Fairview Branch Library ,"2101 Ocean Park Boulevard, Santa Monica, CA "
Wilshire Library ,"149 North Saint Andrews Place, Los Angeles, CA "
Autry National Center ,"4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, CA "
Edward L Doheny Memorial Library ,"3550 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA "
Palms Recreation Center ,"2950 Overland Avenue, Los Angeles, CA "
UCLA Film & TV Archive ,"1015 North Cahuenga Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA "
Firstcom Music Library ,"9255 W Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA "
North Hollywoo d Regional Branch Library ,"5211 Tujunga Avenue, San Fernando Valley, CA "
Marina del Rey Library ,"4533 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA "

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