UCrime Mashup Pinpoints Campus Crime…Just Slightly Off on Maps

Back in August, UCrime.com launched a website/mashup showing crimes committed at selected colleges and universities around the U.S. The company shares data with SpotCrime.com, another online crime alert mashup. I found the site extremely useful and will benefit students interested in understanding the types and locations of criminal activity on campus.

The maps are Google mashups which is fine. As usual, I selected campuses with which I was familiar and the first one I went to was my alma mater, Rutgers University in lovely New Brunswick, NJ. However, the map was centered on Matawan, NJ, a lovely place in its own right, but definitely not New Brunswick. So, it took some repositioning to get to the RU campus. So, guys at UCrime.com, if you are reading this…please take note that you should center the map on College Ave. New Brunswick.