Let’s get some practice with ArcGIS Online GIS analysis services. Imagine you’re working for a sushi delivery company that has made its way to fame via an app accessed from people’s smartphones. Customers use the app to order fresh-made sushi to be delivered to their home. Your company makes the sushi in small “stores” (similar to pizza delivery outlets) and delivers it from those locations.
Unfortunately, business isn’t doing too well, and the company has been forced to cut its number of stores. You are tasked with determining one of the four stores to shut down in the Yakima metro area. You’ve just learned about some geographic analysis that you could perform online to help you with your decision. You already know that you want to consider the area your delivery cars can reasonably reach from each store. You also want to find out about the customer base of each store, including how many people live near each store, how much they tend to spend on restaurants, and how many own smartphones.
The only data you have at this point is a spreadsheet containing the locations of your stores and the amount you pay in rent each month for the commercial space. Let’s start by getting that data into ArcGIS Online.
First download the data for this lesson [1]. Then do the following: