CUSTOMIZING ARCMAP INTERFACE TO GENERATE A LANDFILL SITE SELECTION TOOL

摘要

The site selection study for a municipal landfill can be a costly and critical affair in the wake of limited availability of areas suitable for landfilling. Siting a landfill typically requires processing and evaluating a significant amount of spatial data with respect to various siting rules, regulations, factors and constraints. Implementing such a complex spatial analysis with drawing tools is certainly expensive and tedious. A modern geographical information system (GIS) is capable of processing a large amount of spatial data, thereby potentially saving time and money. The objective of this paper is to enable site planners and engineers who work with GIS to have a tool for preliminary site-selection studies. ArcMap a component of ArcGIS 8.2 was customized to generate a specifically designed toolbar for landfill site selection (LSS toolbar). Such a tailored GIS will enable engineers to investigate and compare results of applying different criteria, constraints and scoring schemes on the final suitability map for landfill site in an area. Customization is performed using the Microsoft Visual Basic for Application. (VBA).