A GIS based approach of clustering for new facility areas in a digitized map

Abstract

This paper presents the technique for finding the suitable locations for building new facility areas, such as Schools, Cold Storages etc. in the given map. The maps are combination of irregular polygons. Information like the co-ordinate points are being kept in traditional file systems during digitization. As first step of the technique, users need to point the locations of existing facility areas, which is visualized into the map. Through suitable user friendly interfaces, the user entered the number of new facility areas needed. The technique sub-divides the total map into a number of sub-regions, each having equal area. This number of sub-regions is equal to the number of total facility area needed. Finally, the tool finds those sub-regions, which don't contain any facility area and generate the centroid of these sub-regions as the suitable location for the further construction of the facility areas. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.