2010/4/12 David Abdurachmanov <[email protected]>: > Hi, > I am trying to solve GIS optimization task. I managed to find some books > about GIS, but they only mention such things and doesn't give actual ways of > doing it. > The task is to find the best location (land) for lets's say 100 x 100 m. for > building a house. Parameters are states, min - max distance between lake, > min - max distance between roads, min - max distance between some hill (min > - max height given too). I figured out I could find the territory where > house could be build by using buffers, difference, unions and etc. After > that I could eliminate some formed polygons by area size, max width and max > height. After that I still need somewhere to put the house in the map (I do > have it multi-polygon). And the only solution right now is doing brute > force? > What is the best approach for these kind of optimization tasks? Maybe > someone has experience in these kind of work?
This is a multi criteria evaluation problem (http://www.google.com/search?q=multi+criteria+evaluation+GIS). Once you have determined all the possible solutions that meet the requirements then picking the "best" either requires more information or a random choice. Ian -- Ian Turton ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Geotools-gt2-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-gt2-users
