Congratulations! You just carried out your first raster analysis with MCE. It is valuable to have the ability to use raster data effectively, and to create suitability analysis on demand. The best thing is that we were able to do the analysis with free and open source data. In this chapter, we learned how to effectively use and analyze raster data. We created a suitability map for an imaginary cause of building a warehouse based on a set of criteria. We were able to delimit suitable areas, and calculate statistics on them to further help making a good decision. Finally, we automated the map making process by creating an atlas with every important piece of information on every suitable site.
In the next chapter, we will leave the realm of desktop GIS, and dwell on web mapping. We will learn the basics of the server side of web mapping systems. First, we will serve our data...
