2 items tagged "Crime and Mapping"
Related tags:
collaborative,
and,
Politics,
Internet,
Blog
-
Posted: July 1st, 2008, 1:17am CEST by Caitlin
Sara Barbour from Miller/McCune magazine writes a summary article on the use of GIS to predict criminal behavior. The start of the article reviews a crime case in which spatial analysis was used to pinpoint and subsequently arrest a sex offender in Toronto. Manny San Pedro, an officer with that police force is quoted as saying [...]
-
Adrian Holovaty offers a retrospective on why he’s shutting down chicagocrime.org. Chicagocrime.org mapped crime data from the Chicago Police Department and was one of the early applications that “mashed” geographic data onto Google Maps. Visitors to the original chicagocrime.org are now redirected to EveryBlock Chicago which Holvaty describes as “chicagocrime.org on steroids — more than [...]