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…
Early days: How I discovered the Earth at my fingertips Rougly ten years ago, in 2005, my supervisor in the company I was working for as a student told me…
beek here, beek there ... Since terrorist attacks in Paris and in Brussels, the world learned the existence of some of the "beek" places in Brussels: Molenbeek, Maalbeek, Schaarbeek. The question that…
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…
In March, I attended the esri #devSummit, which took place in Palm Springs, CA. Three days full of Apps, Beer and Codes. It started with a great Plenary Session involving…
