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2. Suitability analysis - Wikipedia

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   — whether it involves finding the best location for a new road or pipeline, a new housing development, or a retail store. For instance, a commercial developer building a new retail store may take into consideration distance to major highways and any competitors' stores, then combine the results with land use , population density, and consumer ...

3. Site selection - Wikipedia

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   In the US, a country in which industrial site selection played a role very early on, resulting in a very early search for methodical approaches, Edgar M. Hoover was one of the leading pioneers in the field of site analysis. In his book "The Location of Economic Activity", Hoover compiled crucial criteria of industrial site selection as early as ...

4. Retail geography - Wikipedia

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   Retail geography, or geography of retailing, is the study of where to place retail stores based on where their customers are. The use of retail geography has grown significantly in the past decade as a result of the use of geographic information systems . It first emerged in the United States in the 1960s. [1]

5. Huff model - Wikipedia

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   In spatial analysis, the Huff model is a widely used tool for predicting the probability of a consumer visiting a site, as a function of the distance of the site, its attractiveness, and the relative attractiveness of alternatives.

6. Location intelligence - Wikipedia

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   The term "location intelligence" is often used to describe the people, data and technology employed to geographically "map" information. These mapping applications like Polaris Intelligence can transform large amounts of data linked to location (e.g. POIs, demographics, geofences) into color-coded visual representations (heat maps and thematic maps of variables of interest) that make it easy ...

7. INRIX - Wikipedia

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   INRIX, Inc. is a privately held company headquartered in Kirkland, Washington, US.It provides location-based data and software-as-a-service analytics—such as real-time and historical traffic conditions, road safety, and parking availability—to automakers, businesses, cities, and road authorities worldwide, as well as turn-by-turn navigation applications such as Google Waze. [1]