What is a Site Selection Tool?
A site selection tool helps users evaluate whether a location may be suitable for a business, facility, investment, or planning project. This GIS tool checks nearby points of interest, services, competitors, accessibility indicators, and green spaces inside a buffer around the selected point.
The score is an initial GIS-based indicator, not a final business decision. Users should also verify field conditions, population data, traffic, zoning, and market demand.
How the Site Selection Score is Calculated
The score combines five explainable components: accessibility, nearby services, competition, urban activity, and green/open area. Accessibility uses transport and parking related POIs. Nearby services uses hospitals, schools, mosques, shops, banks, pharmacies, and public services. Competition checks POIs related to the selected use type. Urban activity uses total POI density, and green/open area uses nearby parks and open spaces.
Who Can Use This Tool?
This tool can support GIS analysts, real estate planners, business owners, urban planners, students, researchers, and site selection consultants who need a fast first look at location context using live OpenStreetMap data.