Open EU 2011 Census Data Pack
Free is an odd word. Free has a duality; gratis “for free”, and libre “with few restrictions”. When Martin Luther King said “Free… free at last… free at last” he wasn’t referring to the latest Sears buy-one-get-one-free offer. True open data is both gratis and…
4 Years of Retail Points
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. The ‘big 4’ have slowed down openings and have had to enthuse the market in other ways such as…
Retail Points Update
6 facts about this release for the 6th day of Decemeber: 1 Booths closed – Morecambe (March) 2 Whole Foods closing – Giffnock & Cheltenhem 6 Waitrose closures – Cardiff Green Street (June), Palmers Green (August), Huntingdon, Hertford, Staines, Leek (September) New M&S Foodhall opened today…
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…
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