The trend in IT is currently dominated by terms like "Big Data", "Real-Time", "Fast Data", "Smart Data", ... GIS is no exception as most of the data out there can be…
The news of the beginning of the week was monopolized by the US presidential election. During the last few months, a lot of interactive maps flourished on the internet showing…
Movebank.org is fabulous website that centralizes GPS data of tracked animals. Hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, the platform data are accessible to researchers from all over the world to study…
What makes a city a capital is more complicated than it seems. In most cases, the capital is the prime economic, cultural or intellectual centre that becomes the focal point of…
Routing We use routing almost everyday. In the car, the GPS is our best friend. In public transportation we use the topological maps to find the quickest connections between point A and point…
The catchment area of a store is its nearby surroundings where the customers are living. If we take into account the Reilly's law of retail gravitation, "customers may be willing…
One of my hobbies beside GIS is following the Stock Market, whether it is the Belgian BEL20, the French CAC40, the Dutch AEX, the German DAX30 and of course the…
Dear very value reader, A long time ago, I published an article about the shortest path between two points on Earth. These are actually curved on a Mercator map and…
A reader of my previous article, the one about the comparison of the Australian States with other UN-countries, left a comment on saying that it would be interesting to see,…
