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UK Bank & Building Society Locations

Bank & Building Society locations across the UK. A reliable, openly available resource that gives users the ability to integrate this data into their work.

Published 26th July 2023 • Tags open-data
The Importance of Site Visits for Location Planners

While data driven insights are essential, site visits are indispensable for Location Planning. Alison interviewed our Location Planners to find out why we do them and 10 top tips that might help you next time.

Published 1st June 2023 • Tags market-visits, team-thoughts
Geolytix Footfall Tracker: Retail Place Daily Visitor Numbers

Looking to identify high street or shopping centre decline, retail regeneration or seasonal uplifts? Footfall Tracker gives you a robust answer.

Published 26th April 2023 • Tags geodata, mobility
The Power of Geolytix Footfall: Daily Footfall Counts for over 15,000 Retail Places

Why do we love using Geolytix Footfall? Remove the guesswork from micro site selection and immediately identify the busiest locations are.

Published 19th April 2023 • Tags mobility, geodata
Women in Data: The Flagship Event 2023

"Women in Data® aims to bring awareness through media appearances and events; in particular, the annual Women in Data conference."

Published 21st March 2023 • Tags our-team
A visit to Rossmann

Rossmann - the place to buy your health & beauty, children's toys, cat food, chia seeds, a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc and some boxer shorts...

Published 20th March 2023 • Tags market-visits
International Women's Day 2023

We love to celebrate the wonderful women of Geolytix everyday but International Women's Day is a brilliant day to highlight this more.

Published 8th March 2023 • Tags our-team
Mobility Data - Behind the Scenes

"Sometimes the hype around a source of data can become so incessant and insistent that we don’t even question what’s underlying the enticing outputs." We go behind the scenes of mobility data.

Published 28th February 2023 • Tags mobility, geodata
Supermarket Retail Points

Retail Points is a comprehensive data set of supermarket and convenience store locations across the UK. Geolytix release this as open data allowing for unrestricted use, no licensing requirements and without cost.

Published 13th February 2023 • Tags open-data
GEOLYTIX are Geoawesome - Global Top 100 Geospatial Companies

We are thrilled to make the Geoawesomeness Top 100 Geo for 2023, the annual list of the best geospatial companies in the world for geospatial companies.

Published 30th January 2023 • Tags awards, our-team
New towns are not built too often in the UK: Exploring Sherford

The UK is known for its many historic towns but new towns are occasionally built. Sarah explores Sherford which welcomed its first residents in 2017.

Published 17th January 2023 • Tags geodata, market-visits
Gymshark's Regent Street Flagship is definitely worth the weight

Imogen & Rachel recently visited the flagship Gymshark on London's Regent Street. They review their full experience; from a workout in the Sweat Room to a Joe & The Juice shake.

Published 19th December 2022 • Tags market-visits
Creating Robust Small Area Population Estimates

The 2021 Census results for England and Wales are gradually being released at small area. How will conducting a census during a pandemic affect the numbers?

Published 8th December 2022 • Tags census, geodata
GEOLYTIX and the 30 Day Map Challenge 2022

Daily social mapping project happening every November: https://30daymapchallenge.com/

Published 30th November 2022 • Tags our-team, geodata
Is the opening of the first Warsaw Uniqlo the icing on the cake in changing retail trends in Poland?

Uniqlo opens its doors in Poland. Jacek visited the new store in Warsaw and shares his excitement about the potential shift in retail trends the country is experiencing.

Published 2nd November 2022 • Tags international, market-visits
Why do Geolytix love, use and publish Open Data?

Geolytix use, create, publish and love Open Data. Here's why.

Published 27th October 2022 • Tags open-data, awards
Inside the Corner Store - ALDI Melbourne

While Rachel was in Australia working on a client project she took time out to explore Melbourne CBD and visited the new ALDI format Corner Store.

Published 24th October 2022 • Tags market-visits, team-thoughts
Geolytix Model Innovation Day

Geolytix recently held a Model Innovation Day, an internal event to challenge our Data Scientists. Who was the model modeller at the end of the day?

Published 21st October 2022 • Tags our-team, ai
Poland GeoData for Location Intelligence

Are you a retailer or restaurant? Does Poland feature in your expansion plans? Geolytix has GeoData to support your business.

Published 20th October 2022 • Tags international, geodata
Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial

If you use or develop open data and software for geospatial then FOSS4G events are for you.

Published 19th October 2022 • Tags open-data, our-team
10 years of Demographic Change in Poland

With the processing and release of the 2021 Census starting to come through Jacek reviews how the demographics of Poland have changed over the last 10 years.

Published 11th October 2022 • Tags census, geodata, international
UK Retail Points - Supermarket Locations 2022Q3

Looking for a list of supermarket locations in the UK? Look no further. Free to use, accurate and updated quarterly. Geolytix have the resource for you.

Published 7th October 2022 • Tags open-data
Geolytix International GeoData

Geolytix GeoData underpins the informed location decisions we support our clients with.

Published 7th October 2022 • Tags geodata, international
Geolytix: An International Location Intelligence Company

From start up to scale up, Geolytix has worked with some of the biggest retail, leisure, and restaurant brands in more than 55 countries over the last 10 years.

Published 6th October 2022 • Tags our-team, geodata, mapp, international
Online Mapping Platforms & the future of desktop GIS - is this still a relevant discussion?

Why online mapping? Sarah shares five key benefits of online mapping platforms and whether the desktop GIS is dead.

Published 4th October 2022 • Tags mapp
Machine Learning within Location Planning

Machine Learning is not new. We have used it in Location Planning for years, but new advancements mean now we can do more. Danny shares more about the Geolytix ML journey.

Published 3rd October 2022 • Tags team-thoughts, ai
Experiencing IKEA’s First City Centre Store in China

This summer Coco had her first business trip back to Shanghai, one of the key things she ticked off right upon arrival was to visit the IKEA Jing’an City Store.

Published 7th September 2022 • Tags market-visits
Bridging the gap between Censuses

The UK Census is conducted every 10 years, so how do we bridge the gap between to get granular population and household estimates and forecasts?

Published 26th August 2022 • Tags geodata, census
Filling the gaps with {mydentist}

How Europe’s biggest dental provider uses GEOLYTIX MAPP to manage their network of practices and target the most appropriate opportunities for growth.

Published 24th August 2022 • Tags market-visits, geodata, mapp
Where the FAANGs live.

Blair visited Battersea Power Station over the weekend and shared some of his thoughts.

Published 22nd August 2022 • Tags market-visits, team-thoughts
The Sweeter Side of Life

Rachel suggests a sweet spot to visit in St Albans, The Waffle House. We recently supported their team with customer and location analysis.

Published 18th August 2022 • Tags market-visits
LondonShuffle

Six years ago we had a team social to a newly opened Shuffleboard club called LondonShuffle. We were delighted to support them recently with some location data and analysis.

Published 27th July 2022 • Tags team-thoughts, geodata, market-visits
Triple Nominations for the Women in Tech Awards

You’ll know by now that there is nothing we like more than being recognised and winning the odd award.

Published 18th July 2022 • Tags our-team, mapp
Census 2021 - England & Wales first results

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) published the first results of the 2021 England & Wales Census this week at Local Authority District level.

Published 30th June 2022 • Tags census, open-data
Providing The Original Factory Shop with the tools to make Informed Network Expansion Decisions

The Original Factory Shop were looking for a forecast model and network blueprint to help guide their latest phase of new store expansion across the UK. GEOLYTIX rose to the challenge of forecasting sales for this bargain retailer with a somewhat unusual store portfolio.

Published 22nd June 2022 • Tags market-visits
The bright lights at Geolytix

What do Geolytix and Hollywood have in common? Admittedly, on the whole, not that much! No diva attitude around here I’m glad to say!

Published 30th May 2022 • Tags our-team