Intelligent Business Location Recommendation System Based on Spatial Data and Generative AI

An undergraduate thesis project from the University of Thessaly in Greece, which combines geospatial data and Large Language Models (LLM) to build an intelligent business location recommendation system. Through multi-dimensional geographic feature analysis and AI generation technology, it provides personalized location suggestions for entrepreneurs. The project is open-sourced on GitHub, original author: giwrgoskakepakis, release date: June 10, 2026.

Business location selection is a multi-dimensional decision-making problem that needs to consider factors such as population density, transportation convenience, competitive environment, economic level, and infrastructure. Traditional methods are difficult to handle heterogeneous data sources simultaneously and provide personalized explanations. The maturity of Geographic Information System (GIS) technology and the rapid development of Large Language Models (LLM) provide opportunities for the combination of spatial analysis and generative AI, which is expected to produce accurate and interpretable location suggestions.

The system adopts a dual-pipeline architecture:

1. Spatial feature analysis and index construction: Integrate multi-source geospatial data (census, transportation network, commercial facility distribution, etc.), extract key location features and build efficient search indexes;
2. LLM-based intelligent recommendation generation: Use large language models to generate personalized location suggestions and natural language explanations. Key technical components include geospatial feature engineering, search index construction, location evaluation model, and generative response module.

The system evaluates its effect through multi-dimensional indicators, including the matching degree between recommended locations and actual successful cases, user satisfaction surveys, comparative experiments with traditional methods, A/B testing to verify recommendation effects, etc., to ensure the accuracy and reliability of recommendations.

The core innovations are the deep integration of spatial analysis and generative AI; the realization of interpretable recommendations (LLM generates natural language explanations for recommendation reasons); and support for personalization and context awareness (adjusting recommendation strategies according to business types).

Applicable to the following scenarios:

• Entrepreneur decision support: Help quickly understand the advantages and disadvantages of target areas and lower the threshold for location information;
• Chain enterprise expansion planning: Batch analyze candidate locations and provide data-driven priority ranking;
• Urban planning optimization: Analyze the rationality of commercial facility distribution and identify service blind spots;
• Real estate investment reference: Evaluate the potential value of commercial real estate and identify areas with growth potential.

Implementation challenges include data integration (cleaning and alignment of scattered data sources), model generalization (adapting to geographic features of different cities), computational efficiency optimization (balancing response time and quality), and privacy and ethical considerations (legal use of data). Future directions: real-time data integration, multi-modal expansion (combining street view/satellite images), reinforcement learning optimization (iterating with user feedback), and mobile application development.