Economic and business geography
Economic geography, or business geography, is a bridge between economy and geography, describing the varied places and regions where economic activities are carried out and circulate. Economic geography approach applies the approaches of geography, geomatics, and GIS to study economy and business. The main objects of economic geography are location, distribution and spatial organization of economic activities across the regions, the nations and the world. Regional disparities are another important topic of economic geography.
Traditionally economic geography comprises several branches, including geography of resources, geography of industry, geography of international trade, and regional economic geography (regional economy). However, there are emerging areas such as geomarketing, geostatistics, location analysis, real estate spatial analysis, retail geography, and transport geography of logistics and freight distribution.
Industry and economic activity distribution along with geography of infrastructure are also the vital part of business intelligence.
Spatial economic information and localized business data are of crucial importance for local governments, urban planning authorities, multinational corporations, retail, logistics and marketing companies. Well positioning to meet their needs, Zesmill offers a variety of services and project delivery methods, including:
- industries and businesses localization and mapping
- regional economy analysis and calculation of regional economic performance indicators
- economic regionalization and micro-zoning
- manufacturing, high-tech, factor endowment business clusters modeling and mapping
- GIS-based analysis for residential and commercial property markets
- population data detailed to town/village, neighborhood, city block level
- catchment area calculation for airports, hospitals, malls, stores, cable TV providers and other businesses
- collection of economic data of regions-, county-, and city/town-level, and geodata base development
- acquisition of transport infrastructure data (roads and roadways, railroads and stations, ports, navigable waterways, airports etc.)
- road and highway capacity data, road inventory
- agricultural potential studies including land resource and soil studies, climatic and water resource inventory
Zesmill is also well known for creating thematic maps of dozens of types. Among them socio-economic maps both to be printed as hard copies, used in digital formats in GIS, SaaS and Web applications, and media:
- maps of economic activity
- maps of industries (metal, engineering, vehicle, chemical, textile and clothing etc.)
- maps of roads and railroads
- maps of electric generation facilities
- maps of supermarkets, hotels, restaurants and cafes, pharmacies, gas stations combined with geomarketing data
- maps of amusement and recreation facilities, tourist infrastructure
- maps of property markets
- maps of land use, agriculture, selected agricultural crops, grazing lands
- maps of business clusters
- demographic and social maps.