We’ve nearly outgrown our favourite Curly Whirly cake
We were delighted to welcome Agata and Dan to our growing team last month. Agata joins us as a developer and brings with her spatial expertise having graduated from from the Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. Dan, a fellow mathematician is keen to build…
GEOLYTIX Education Data 2017
Currently in the UK, about 25% of the population are in education. Comprising a significant proportion of the total population, this group of young people, typically aged up to 21, are unique consumers who forge distinct patterns in both geography and the economy. Knowing where…
The Future of Oxford Street: Strength to Strength or Fighting for Survival?
London’s Oxford Street is one of the busiest shopping destinations in the world with a history stretching back well over 100 years. Drawing more than half a million visitors every day, the street is facing some major changes in the next 5 years from Crossrail and…
Retail Points Update Now Available!
It’s been a while since the last release of Retail Points. 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. Marks and Spencer have…
GEOLYTIX Point of Interest Data 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. An invaluable resource which is updated annually, the dataset contains 13…
We are hiring a Computer Scientist / Developer
We want to hear from you if you’re passionate about bleeding edge open source software development. We need you to help us to grow in the web services market. Being a computer scientist you will be involved in research and prototyping. You will be given the…
Administrative Boundaries > OpenStreetMap
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. Unlike those maps which were used during orienteering with…
We’re still telling our customers where to go – a year in the world of location planning and network strategy
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 (a continuation of our focus on location analytics but reaching further afield). Personally, it’s been a year where I’ve branched…
Fresh Trader: Can a wholesaler succeed on the high street?
We welcome back Angela, our guest blogger, who shares her view on a different kind of grocery store… Smack bang right in the middle of an average, non-descript high street in the suburbs of North London sits a shop with a fresh concept. Nowhere else…
Fishnets, Honeycombs and Footballs – Better spatial models with hexagonal grids.
I love the unique mathematical properties of hexagonal tiling for spatial analysis and the inherent possibility to create beautiful bi-variate hex maps. GEOLYTIX asked me to share some of my thoughts about hex grids. What makes them special and why are they better suited for all…
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