Questions tagged [business]
Relating to the use of business geographics (GIS) in fields such as retail, real estate, marketing, logistics, banking, insurance, etc
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Create an 'heatmap' based off of a numeric attribute in a point feature class [closed]
I have a shapefile with several points, each of which has a numeric attribute 'price'. I am trying to find areas that have the most potential revenue concentrated based off of the price in the feature ...
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GIS data for Grocery store sales in the US
I am looking for sources that would provide sales data for grocery stores in the US. I have looked at ESRI's Business Data that they receive from InfoGroup, but was wondering if anyone know of any ...
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Choosing Canadian province for studying GIS and finding professional opportunities [closed]
I have a Business Administration degree and a Logistics MBA. My final project was a case study of efficiency improvements through ArcGIS routes in a local road transportation company. Suddenly I fell ...
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Building an online map - how hard can it be? [duplicate]
I am a complete coding/mapping novice and I have no experience whatsoever in this field. However, I have had a really promising business idea which would be based on an online map/website.
My plan ...
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What to consider when hiring aerial LiDAR survey? [closed]
My organization is considering hiring a company to capture new LiDAR data to help with current stormwater issues that we are currently experiencing. I am a GIS analyst that has been assigned with this ...
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Gravity/Huff model tools
I am looking for a way to simulate a gravity model using a point-based layer.
All my points are assigned a z-value and the higher this value, the larger is their "sphere of influence". This influence ...
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How to find library or other business POIs?
I am just starting an Intro GIS course, so I really have no idea what the best place is to find downloadable GIS data. I was really hoping to do my semester project on library or bookstore locations ...
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Purpose of building footprints
What are the uses (public and private industry) of building footprints?
I'm trying to figure out how polygon building footprints can be used. i.e. are they used for determining tax liabilities, etc....
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constructing customer-derived trade areas
I am interested in creating some customer-derived trade areas that represent "most" of the customers for a given store (say 80%). I have both the customers and the stores geocoded.
The ESRI Business ...
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Looking for location intelligence tools and user experience reports [closed]
I am looking for location intelligence tools (= combination of business intelligence + GIS). I had a look at several options: SpagoBI, Microstrategy + VisualCrossing, Yellowfin, and Map Intelligence.
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Heat Map to find 10 restaurants, 10 retail, and 10 stores open after 6pm within 3 linear blocks
I would like to find where in the City there is a combination of 10 restaurants, 10 retail, and 10 stores open after 6pm within 3 linear blocks. What is the best way to do this? What data would I need ...
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Demographic Info within 3 miles of longitude and latitude
I want to get demographic information within three or five miles of a location given its longitude and latitude. The demographic info I am looking for include number of people, age distribution, ...
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How to find the most spread out locations?
Probably a very simple question. I have a list of about a thousand potential geographical locations (lat lon), and of those I need to select the 200 locations that are "most spread out". I think that ...
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Alternatives to ESRI Business Analyst
Does there exist any other software than business analyst that can do store-level trade area analysis without much programming overhead? I am particularly interested in:
Creating customer-derived ...
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Looking for symbology for NAICS codes
I am curious if anyone has come up or has a good graphic style they can share that is symbology for NAICS codes. I have a large dataset that I want to symbpolize based on the 2 digit NAICS industry ...
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What are best practices to compare densities and locations between two sets of points?
I have two sets of point shapefiles. They represent two different customer groups for a retail store. Shapefile A represents online customers, Shapefile B represents in-store customers.
What I ...
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Seeking national MLS boundary dataset for US
What I am looking for is some type (any type) of national map which outlines the boundaries of each of the 1000+ MLS (Multiple Listing Services).
For some reason the National Association of Realtors ...
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Seeking high resolution data on residential land use
I am currently searching for high resolution data on residential or commercial land use in the USA. I'd like to use this data to determine for a given location wether this location is in a house with ...
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Does anyone know how to get the Bing Search Toolbar to work again in ArcGIS 10 Business Analyst after the SP2 install?
I just updated my ArcGIS Business Analyst with the Server Pack 2 upgrade and now the Bing Search Toolbar does not work. Is anyone else having this problem and if so do you know of a way to fix it? ...
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In ArcGIS how can I append the number of points that are located inside each individual block groups of the entire US?
I am using ArcGIS 10 and I have two shapefiles; (a) a polygon shapefile of block groups of the entire US, (b) a point shapefile of customer locations throughout the US.
What I want to know if how ...
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Choosing a GIS which imports a list of stage addresses, calculates the route, allows to modify and export it
I'm new to GISs. I'm searching for a GIS to meet following requirements.
I have a list of street addresses [A,B,C,D,E,...], with additional information associated (basically which orders to deliver ...
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Seeking GIS Solutions And ROI For Local Government?
In your experience, what GIS solutions provide the greatest ROI for local government's responsibilities?
Examples: Parcel management, managing CRM cases from the public, emergency response, etc.
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GIS software to manage assets [closed]
How do you manage the following projects (i.e. what GIS software / platform would you use)?
An extensive Footpath Construction & Renewal Program
Improved drainage systems at x Street, y Street, ...
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Seeking GIS data for fast food industry?
I am working a small project related to fast food industry. I am trying find GIS data for fast food chains like subway, MC Donald's, Arby's, etc in state of Ohio. Basically, I am looking for point ...
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Benefits of using GIS in business intelligence software?
Business intelligence softwares use a lot of data in order to create reports helping decision makers. Given that more and more GIS resources and services are available and that data can often be ...
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Arguments for opening a GIS area in an important agricultural-related bank?
the managers of the bank where I work at have been considering creating a "GIS-unit" that would help with economic-related research / business intelligence. They asked me to raise a list of reasons of ...
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Open-source GIS implementation of the Huff model
This might be a stretch, but I was wondering if anyone implemented gravity modeling tools or scripts for Retail Market Analysis (like the Huff Model), to analyze spatial data for customer-store ...
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Seeking US State or National business (or employer) database lists
This question dovetails with What kind of datasets are necessary for geomarketing applications?.
I am familiar with some of larger, paid-for business registry's like InfoUSA and Dunn & Bradstreet. ...
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Books or other Resources on Business Benefits from GIS? [closed]
I believe Top unsung business benefits for GIS is an excellent source of info.
My question expands on that for any industry books related to this subject. I know there have already been several ...
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Detecting trends in local business web services
Do you know any research paper about spatial data mining algorithms to retrieve trends about local business services (such as google places.. etc)
let's say most rated restaurants this week.. etc ?
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Most common unmet GIS need for businesses
What would you say is the most common unmet GIS need for businesses, as far as technology goes?
I'm a programmer and I'm trying to think of a business idea. I like GIS, so I think I might want to do ...
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How do I explain what GIS is in a business context [closed]
This is hypothetical so don't ask for details:
I've heard of this GIS thing with computers and maps and stuff and it sounds like it might apply to this project I'm working on. Could you explain what ...
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PostGIS: Assign ID of point in layer A to closest point in Layer B
This should have been an obvious precursor (that I didn't ask) to my other question:
How to create spider diagrams (hub lines) in PostGIS?
If I do not know the relationship between a point in layer A ...
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GIS Buzzwords Topic
What are the main buzzwords today in the GIS market? Let's place the meaning of these ones too, so beginners can enjoy the topic as well.
Example: SDI
"A spatial data infrastructure (SDI) is a ...
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Organization in a GIS Shop [closed]
This question is about staying organized and current on all your to dos and project tasks. For me I am an avid user of GTD and a variety of online tools such as evernote, toodledo, and gmail.
I ...
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Top unsung business benefits for GIS
One of the biggest criticisms of GIS professionals is typically that GIS is an underused technology and as such the professionals feel frustrated that they only get to use it in very limited ...