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This
spatial database will contain basic and essential information
describing the parameters of individual shops such as retail
type, geographical location, postal address and floorspace. In
addition, there is the possibility of adding other store-based
information as supplementary material at a later stage in this
project.
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Map Company Ltd (part derived from Cities Revealed (R)
photography © 1998 The Geoinformation Group (R)
Ltd).
| FID |
Shape |
Id |
CUMULATIVE ID |
SHOP_NAME |
ADDRESS |
POSTCODE |
| 750 |
Point |
755 |
755 |
Transreal Fiction |
7
Cowgatehead |
EH1
1JY |
| 751 |
Point |
756 |
756 |
Wind Things |
11
Cowgatehead |
EH1
1JY |
| 752 |
Point |
757 |
757 |
Fabhatrix |
13
Cowgatehead |
EH1
1JY |
| 753 |
Point |
758 |
758 |
|
Cowgate |
EH1
1JX |
| 754 |
Point |
759 |
759 |
Grassmarket Advice Centre |
18
Cowgate |
EH1
1JX |
| 755 |
Point |
767 |
767 |
La
Tavema |
3
James Court |
EH1
2BP |
| 756 |
Point |
768 |
768 |
The
Judge Jolly |
7
James Court |
EH1
2BP |
| 757 |
Point |
760 |
760 |
Deacon Brodie's Cavern |
435
Lawnmarket |
EH1
2NT |
| 758 |
Point |
761 |
761 |
Jamie Scotts |
449
Lawnmarket |
EH1
2NT |
| 759 |
Point |
762 |
762 |
The
Edinburgh Woolen Mill |
453
Lawnmarket |
EH1
2NT |
| 760 |
Point |
763 |
763 |
|
Lawnmarket |
EH1
2NT |
The
feasibility study comprises several linked studies to explore
different data collection methods and establishment of the
resource needs to use these different methods to compile a
full and optimised data collection system. The study also
includes evaluation of the methods needed to keep the database
up-to-date and how to record the changes and the history of
changes which are necessary for trends and time-series
analysis. This feasibility study aims to cover a wide range of
retail formats including the retail parks, shopping
centres/malls and the streetfront retail shops. In addition,
the database will provide a distinctive regional theme
focusing on the multiple retailers operating in Scotland.
The GIS
implementation in this research enables mapping, manipulation,
storage, retrieval, updating and analysis of the locational
and attributional information in the Scottish retail database
using standardised and customised GIS functionality.
This GIS
functionality facilitates the interrogation of the retail
database to, for example, display locations of stores which
share particular characteristics or to analyse the spatial
dynamics and inter-relations of stores of different retail
types such as adjacencies, clustering and nearest neighbours.
Another example of GIS functionality is to pull out vacant
stores which exist within or beyond a specified radius from
stores of a particular retail type which may be potential for
further branching.
We are
still at the feasibility stage of this project but first
results suggest that such a GIS-based system would be possible
and of potential value to many groups involved in the retail
sector.
The object
of the study is to ascertain feasibility and to make sample
parts of the database freely available to research user
communities. | 
