Projects are due Monday, April 16.
Companies also rely on such ratings to find new locations for their businesses.
To illustrate how place ratings are employed, you are going to use ArcView to produce maps to rate the attractiveness of the states based on several criteria. To produce the maps, you will have to calculate a summary value based on the criteria in each category. As we did in our ArcView class, we will be using attribute tables and creating new fields within these tables to produce the summary scores. To locate these files, start ArcView in the usual way. When ArcView appears, select File and Open Project from the drop down menu.