| dc.description.abstract | When considering Sri Lanka, with the
developments in the country, the infrastructure
of the urban city areas is being developed year by
year. As a result of these conditions, people in
rural villages are moving to cities for a better
future. With the increasing demand for urban
areas, countries are facing the problem of finding
the best place to live in urban areas. Available
lands in urban areas are limited. Accordingly, the
government of Sri Lanka has faced some
problems in finding enough spaces for all citizens
for establishing their residential places. . This
study focuses to develop a method from GIS
(Geographical Information Science) providing
some facilities for finding suitable locations for
the new residential areas with respect to the
criteria people desire. The integrating with the
GIS data layers of the real world and the criteria
of the people, the GIS can be defined as better
solutions for finding suitable locations for new
residential areas. In this research, the Ratnapura
Municipal Council (MC) area was selected as the
study area and distance from the roads, water
features, religious places, service buildings, new
town, and the police station have been selected as
criteria for integrating with GIS. To identify the
new residential locations, the reclassify and
weighted overlay functions of Arc GIS software
were used. 0.25% area has been established as
new residential places in the Ratnapura MC Area.
The digital data layers used in this study were
1:10000. If it was scaled up to 1:1000 data layers,
the accuracy of the result may be high. Further,
the results accuracy too would be satisfiable as
suitable areas were inside the existing high
residential zone. | en_US |
