A GIS based application for construction of site in the hilly region of Warasgaon lake catchment Pune Maharashtra State

The information required for planning and design in construction industry are stored in the form of drawing, specifications on paper work and bar charts or pie charts etc. During the Site planning process, planner/architect has to need reorganize understand and interpret the information collected from various resources as said above. GIS nourishes construction planning and design efficiency by integrating locational and thematic information in a single environment. Its capability to store large database is helpful to maintain construction data in digital form that provide a wide range of information having the capacity of attributes and running of query for better results to construction industry with a mechanism for rapid retrieval and manipulation capabilities. This study inferred the application of geographic information systems (GIS) in modeling the locational and terrain aspects to identify areas of suitability. A GIS-based methodology is used for construction of site in Warasagaon lake catchment in the vicinity of Warasgaon Dam. In the present study various terrain aspects that are crucial for the locating infrastructure facilities were identified