Open Data

A collection of 36 posts

Open Data

Grocery Growth: UK Supermarket and Convenience Openings in 2024

2024 saw major shifts in UK grocery retail with bold expansions, innovative formats, and strategic closures shaping the industry.

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UK Bank & Building Societies Points

UK Bank and Building Society points for 27 operators. All current and closed (since 2015) locations for operators with more than 10 branches.

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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.

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Why do Geolytix love, use and publish Open Data?

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

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Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial

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

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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.

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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.

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UK Retail Points - Supermarket Locations 2022Q1

A strong start in the first quarter of 2022 for the UK grocery market. The opening and addition of 196 stores and 48 closures in our latest data release.

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UK Supermarket Retail Points - Q4 2021

The 22nd version and final update for 2021 of UK Supermarket Retail Points is available. Aldi continues it's expansion, Morrisons Daily stores increase and Mere enters the market.

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Bank Branch Data Open and Free from Geolytix

We are making the last 5 years of canonical UK bank branch data fully open under a CC0 license. It includes all UK branches - including those now shut - that have traded over the last five years. Read for more information...

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Geolytix open Supermarket Retail Points - 20th Edition

The 20th version of Geolytix’s open data set; Retail Points, has now been released.

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Geolytix Supermarket Retail Points V19

Our comprehensive data set of supermarket and convenience store locations across the UK, Retail Points, has now been updated and released the 19th version.

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Geolytix Retail Points - August 2020 - Including UK coverage of Spar

As a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, many supermarket store openings and closures for this quarter were delayed.

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Retail Points - Spar and Dunnes in Northern Ireland

We are releasing the 16th version of our open Retail Points data. For this update we have included Spar and Dunnes stores for Northern Ireland.

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European Census and Indices

Census data is a powerful source of statistics able to describe a population. The data can be complex, messy, expensive, difficult to access and vary from country. Geolytix has taken the time to remove this hassle and make the data accessible, functional and open.

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UK Supermarket Retail Points

The latest release of the GEOLYTIX open Retail Points data set with the most recent openings and closures captured.

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GEOLYTIX Supermarket Retail Points

The collective market share of the ‘Big Four’ supermarkets (Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda and Morrisons) has fallen to 62.7%.

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Open EU 2011 Census Data Pack

Free is an odd word. Free has a duality; gratis “for free”, and libre “with few restrictions”.

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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.

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Retail Points Updated

6 facts about this release for the 6th day of December.

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European Census Data and Boundaries

Censuses have been a critical element of running a civilisation since civilisation began.

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Retail Points Update - 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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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.

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Retail Points Update - 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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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.