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…
Retail Points Update
Since the last release of Retail Points the Netto and Sainsburys joint venture trial has ended resulting in closure of all 16 stores. Just two years after the discount retailer comeback was launched, all stores were closed in August of this year. That wasn’t the only…
Open Supermarkets now known as Retail Points
Today sees the release of the latest instalment of Open Supermarkets, we have now renamed this Retail Points. There have been changes in the UK supermarket world since the last release with the most notable one being: Morrisons selling their M Locals to Mike Green…
Open Supermarkets-Now including Co-op Societies and Iceland
With every release of the open supermarkets Geolytix aim to improve and build on the previous version. The long awaited addition of the rest of the Co-operative societies has been a focus, along with adding in Iceland stores as the latest retailer in the database….
Spring Treat: Open Supermarkets – Version 5
The latest updated open supermarkets is now available. A total of 349 stores have been added since the previous release. This is a mixture of new stores and capturing missing stores from the dataset. Highlights of the release: 43 Tesco closures 10 Morrison closures 15…
When the Foundations Keep Shifting – Geolytix Town Boundaries
One of, maybe the, biggest headaches working with reference data is change. Houses get built, roads are widened, people die and babies are born. As providers of data it is our responsibility to keep on top of all this change. Last week we finished the…
Why Open Data leads to Higher Quality Data
We are often told Geolytix are foolish to ‘give away’ data we have created, especially when we know we could license that data for good money. Well, more foolishness… today we have released the full data for the top ~350 town and city centre Retail…
Geolytix UK Census Pack – Open Data
For the last couple of weeks at Geolytix we’ve been eager little data bunnies processing the detailed English, Welsh and Northern Irish Census Data. Today Geolytix are releasing harmonised Output Area Census Data covering the ~200 core variables as a single easy-to-use flat file. This…
Open Data Census 2011 Pack
The decennial censuses of the United Kingdom cost our country ~£500,000,000 and is the biggest, most expensive to collect and most important set of Open Data that exists. Yet the creation of what many power users need, a single simple consistent national file containing the…
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