Finding food: Issues and challenges in using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to measure food access

A significant amount of travel is to find food. This paper examines challenges in measuring access to food using GIS, of importance in studies of both travel and eating behavior. It compares different sources of data available including fieldwork, land use and parcel data, licensing information, com...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ann Forsyth, Leslie Lytle, David Van Riper
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Minnesota 2010-05-01
Series:Journal of Transport and Land Use
Subjects:
GIS
Online Access:https://www.jtlu.org/index.php/jtlu/article/view/105