Incredible fun with Google Maps hacking. Pity is US only at present. I particularly love uses like the live Seattle 911 incidents map.
Several years ago after reading about then Mayor Giuliani ’s CompStat crime tracking system, I wanted to plot crime incidents onto a live map of London. The idea was scotched by the non-availability of crime data from the Metropolitan police and the sheer technical difficulty of it.
Today’s semantic web is making those sorts of ideas relatively easy to realize. I might just mail the Met again…
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