Wildland fires commonly occur during the hot and dry seasons. More tempered climates can however also be affected. We are studying the extent of the last major wildland fire that occur the 25…
Placenames in Belgium and the cultural influences Belgium is a very small country in the Western part of Europe. It lies between The Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg and France. Despite being so…
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…
