A study on location suitability of Sri Mahamariaman Temple at Shah Alam using GIS

The suitability location of Hindu Temple at section 19 was very importance among Shah Alam´s people. The housing build by PKNS was much closed with that Hindu temple. That issue give a lot of sensitive dilemmas were come up and need to investigate using technologies which is Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The aim of this study is to find the suitable location of Hindus Temple by investigates the characteristics, factors and criteria. The objectives for this study are (i) to explore and identify the suitable criteria location of Hindu temple (ii) to use all the suitable criteria and integrate the demographic data (iii) to analyze the results of suitable location after processing the data. Researcher has analyzed four factors which can determine the suitability of Hindu Temple. The factor considered were races population between Malay, India, China and others, distance factor, physical and environmental factor. This project has been process using GIS tools which is vector data analysis such as buffering, overlay, intersect, union and erase. The final result shows the suitable location of Hindus Temple.