Finding the Best Location for New Restaurant Using GIS Technologies

Abstract

Abbreviation Definition

GIS Geographic Information System

AHP Analytic Hierarchy Process

MCA Multi Criteria Analysis

MCDA Multi Criteria Decision Analysis

SDSS Spatial Decision Support System

DSS Decision Support System

Restaurants has become one of the most important facilities that

generates a huge amount of revenues in community that helps in

economic growth of the country ,it’s not just a place for serving

food and drinks but it’s also one of the important tourism places

that visitors could come to. The research aims to find best location

for building a restaurant that guarantees its suitability,

accessibility, durability, and visibility. GIS which is a powerful

tool in spatial analysis and decision making can be utilized for

this purpose efficiently and effectively, using weighted site

selection analysis in defining the problem, collecting data,

ranking criteria according to their weights and re-classifying the

criteria using weighted sum equation to obtain the suitability map.

This research took Khartoum locality as study area and “Papa

costa” restaurant as an example to find the best location to build

a new “papa costa” branch.

The final result visualized the optimal site to build a new “Papa

costa” branch in term of compatibility with the study criteria is in the area near Nile Street.