1. The City of Boston needs to be about 2 acres of green space per 1,000 persons. You have been hired as the GIS expert by an independent consulting company to determine where the City is meeting this rule of thumb and where it is not. The city wants to know this information for each Community Area. Before you begin your analyses, what types of GIS data will you need? (Try to be specific.) Once you have that data, briefly explain what GIS analyses you would need to perform in order to determine where the City is meeting this rule of thumb and where it is not, by Community area.
2. What are steps to take in ArcGIS to find the total number of schools in a City, Steps to take when you have a polygon file of zip codes, a point file of schools for a state, and a polygon file of the boundary of the City to find the total number of schools in a city.