Hi all,
I have one dataset that is all of the places and county subdivisions in the United States, represented by points latitude, longitude), and then another data that is temporal representing counties that have had a FEMA disaster declaration in a given year. The disaster declaration data is in a panel data format (counties have multiple rows, each representing a separate year that they had a disaster declaration).
What I am hoping to do is attach the temporal county disaster declaration data to a county shapefile, and then do a proximity analysis where, for each year, the distance between points for the places/county subdivisions and the nearest county to have a disaster declaration are calculated.
I hope I've explained that in a way that makes sense... I've been trying to figure this out for quite a while, but haven't been able to locate a tutorial that will help me through it. I was just writing to see if anyone knows of any tutorials (or other info) out there that could help walk me through this process!
Best regards,
Matt
