Today, on the 26th of July, the 2024 Paris Olympic Games will officially commence, welcoming almost 11,000 athletes from 196 nations across the world, followed by the Paralympics with over 4,000 competitors. Some forecasts suggest this summer’s Olympics could be one of team GB’s most successful yet, with 66 medals total! Grassroots sports facilities that introduce sports to individuals and maintain healthy participation in them are vital for team GBs continual Olympic success. At GMAP we used our LeisureVision dataset to investigate the distribution of these facilities and makeup in 2024, separating the single sport facilities such as tennis courts from the multipurpose facilities such as sports centres with swimming pools and gyms attached.We utilized our LeisureVision dataset to investigate the distribution and composition of these facilities in 2024. We categorized the facilities into single-sport venues, such as tennis courts, and multipurpose centres, such as sports complexes that include

As experts in the automotive location planning industry, at GMAP, we thrive on exploring trends and changes in the automotive sector through our use of DVLA Data. Having been resellers of the anonymized DVLA car registrations dataset for the past decade, we have conducted numerous geodemographic analyses within automotive location planning projects and supplementing projects in the retail industry.

As experts in geographical modelling, wouldn’t it be possible to predict who will win the Eurovision Song Contest? We first developed a model to do just this many years ago and used it to predict Ukraine’s first ever win in 2004. Since then its success has been more limited, as we frequently failed to account for the Je ne sais quoi that makes a Eurovision winner. Now, 20 years later, it’s time to see if we can build a model to predict who will win this year.

We are excited to be celebrating five years of GMAP Analytics today. In these past five years we have completed copious consultancy projects globally in numerous industries and have developed new products and datasets; IMPACT, RetailVision and LeisureVision. Our team has grown and consolidated considerably from mainly analytical backgrounds to a cohesive and skilful team.

The UK’s rail network, just like the UK's retail network, is a dynamic commercial landscape. With the changes in remote and hybrid working, the growing popularity of e-commerce, as well as rail strikes and the growth in electric vehicles, the need for adaptation and growth in rail is clear. In this blog, we discuss the distribution of train stations and the potential ways to encourage train use in the UK, using MVPLUS.

At GMAP we are always excited to explore and implement innovative technologies and methods, and also to combine science, art and technology as we have done for the past thirty years in our location planning consultancy and geodemographic analysis.

We discuss how GMAP uses census data in MVPLUS and our other products, and also how your company can benefit from geodemographic analysis that our census-filled geodemographic datasets or our network plans can provide.

GMAP are experts in location intelligence, planning and consultancy. We've explored the recent and upcoming new stores in the UK , some of which are brands that are new to the UK or new to physical retail, or are being resurrected after the impacts of COVID-19.