Blog
Pensées, expériences et idées.
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4 Years of Retail Points
23rd October 2018
It’s been 4 years since the first release of Retail Points (previously Open Supermarkets) and hasn’t it been an exciting time in the world of grocery.
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From Ahmedabad to Zibo
18th May 2018
It’s gone unbelievably quickly but we are now six months in to our Asia Pacific adventure with Geolytix offices now up and running in Tokyo and Shanghai.
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A mostly True Fairy Tale (any similarities to the 2004 Morrisons/Safeway merger are purely co-incidental)
30th April 2018
Long long ago, in a land not very far away, the King of GeoConsultingInc was not happy, not happy at all.
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Official Chop! GEOLYTIX China opens its doors
25th April 2018
GEOLYTIX announces its official registration in China; the country with largest population and second largest economy! We now have our chop…
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Creamstastic: An explosion of ice cream parlours
9th December 2017
Ice cream parlours make me think of a Sunday afternoon, currant tea cake, jersey ice cream and miniature train ride at Charlottes in West Yorkshire. Times have changed.
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MAPIC – what’s it all about?
23rd November 2017
Last week Sarah and I were lucky enough to exhibit at MAPIC in Cannes with ESRI, one of our long-standing partners.
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European Census Data and Boundaries
7th November 2017
Censuses have been a critical element of running a civilisation since civilisation began.
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Republic of Ireland Retail Places
23rd October 2017
Retail Places is one of our most popular datasets. We have now expanding this to Republic of Ireland.
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European Fast Fashion Sweeping the West End
17th October 2017
In my June blog, I discussed my view on the future of Oxford Street, coming to the conclusion that although it faced some challenges, it was still an attractive shopping destination that would remain strong well into the future.
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FOSS4G Boston 2017
8th September 2017
From August 13th – 19th Dennis & Kerst flew to Boston to take part in the annual FOSS4G conference – thanks GEOLYTIX!
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Public Transport Data
7th September 2017
Public transport data is fundamental to any consumer-orientated location planning project.
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The changing face of Enfield. Ditching mainstream fashion for wine tasting, a pedicure and a Cuban night
24th July 2017
I moved to Enfield 13 years ago, leaving Crouch End to take advantage of the lower house prices.
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We’ve nearly outgrown our favourite Curly Whirly cake
7th July 2017
We were delighted to welcome Agata and Dan to our growing team last month.
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Education Data 2017
20th June 2017
Currently in the UK, about 25% of the population are in education.
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The Future of Oxford Street: Strength to Strength or Fighting for Survival?
6th June 2017
London’s Oxford Street is one of the busiest shopping destinations in the world with a history stretching back well over 100 years.
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Retail Points Update - May 2017
31st May 2017
Not only has it been busy in the Geolytix office but as always in the turbulent world of food retail there having been many announcements over the past few months.
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GEOLYTIX Point of Interest Data 2017
22nd May 2017
Location planning spans a wide range of industries from retail to the public sector. Complex decisions require a multitude of inputs, and that is where Geolytix’s Point of Interest (POI) data can be used.
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Administrative Boundaries > OpenStreetMap
31st March 2017
Here at GEOLYTIX we believe that the best available administrative boundaries data should be open and easily accessible. We are a little vain in respect to our maps. Badly fitting boundaries should not be crossed out.
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We’re still telling our customers where to go – a year in the world of location planning and network strategy
30th March 2017
Whilst for many 2016 was heavily tainted by Brexit and Trump, for Geolytix it has been a year of establishing our European and Global Strategy.
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Fresh Trader: Can a wholesaler succeed on the high street?
14th March 2017
We welcome back Angela, our guest blogger, who shares her view on a different kind of grocery store…
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Birmingham New Street/Grand Central: A space fit for the 21st century
3rd March 2017
On a fleeting visit to Birmingham I had some time to explore the redeveloped area at Grand Central/ New Street station.
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Fishnets, Honeycombs and Footballs – Better spatial models with hexagonal grids.
3rd March 2017
I love the unique mathematical properties of hexagonal tiling for spatial analysis and the inherent possibility to create beautiful bi-variate hex maps.
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Bunnings first UK opening: An Aussie sausage sizzle in the snow
21st February 2017
The shake up of the UK DIY sector recently got underway in St Albans with the opening of the first UK Bunnings.
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Smiles and Giggles = Smiggle
6th February 2017
We’re excited to post our first guest blog. Angela shares her take on one of the new retailers to hit the UK…
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Happy New Year!
8th January 2017
So we have survived our first work week of 2017 – even if it was only 4 days.
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The Dining Club – IKEA
10th November 2016
“It doesn’t matter what you make, it’s the people that are the best ingredients.”
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Retail Points Update - October 2016
19th October 2016
Since the last release of Retail Points the Netto and Sainsburys joint venture trial has ended resulting in closure of all 16 stores.
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Veggie Pret – Not just for Veggie’s
14th July 2016
During the month of June Pret A Manger opened a pop-up vegetarian store – not a ‘new concept store’, they acknowledged.
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Location Planning and Data Analytics firm Geolytix win Queen’s Award for Enterprise
1st July 2016
London-based Geolytix have today won a Queen’s Award for Enterprise for creating innovative spatial algorithms that help retailers profitably attract and serve customers in a complex multi-channel world.
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Open Supermarkets now known as Retail Points
5th April 2016
Today sees the release of the latest instalment of Open Supermarkets, we have now renamed this Retail Points.
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Samantha’s Week One – Back to Maps…
14th October 2015
It’s been a buzz so far! I’ve been reminded of the power of data and a map together. Once combined questions that seemed unanswerable are suddenly simple.
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Iceland Food Warehouse – Old Kent Road
23rd September 2015
It has been a hot topic in the industry for a while that the discounters are continuing to grow in popularity and share of market spend.
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Open Supermarkets – Now including Co-op Societies and Iceland
15th September 2015
With every release of the open supermarkets Geolytix aim to improve and build on the previous version.