Buffering Vector Data

Buffering is a basic spatial operation that "buffers" or expands data horizontally. Buffers are used for a wide variety of problems including:

• Finding a buffer of a specified distance around a river to protect it from logging
• Find the conservation zone around a lake
• Add a buffer around a road to keep agricultural plants back from contaminates
• Find the effective radius around a radio tower
• Find the area for noise abatement around an airport

You can move the thumb on the slider below the images below to change the amount of "buffering" that is applied to the spatial data. You can also "edit" the data by clicking and dragging the points in the shapes.