Fearsquare takes your recent FourSquare check-ins and cross-references these with the UK Police Crime Statistics database. Showing you street level crime for each individual check-in.
Or in detail:
The FearSquare application takes a list of your ten most recent FourSquare check-ins and cross-references these with the UK Police Crime Statistics database. In this way, we can show people how many crimes were committed, during a recent one-month period, in the locations where they checked-in.
via +Marshall Kirkpatrick
by Adena Schutzberg on 05/07 at 05:18 AM |
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In Southend on Sea, in Sussex, UK suspects released on bail for certain crimes have as a condition of their bail not visiting certain areas. How do they know which areas? They get maps. While some people will ignore such a requirement, Sgt Bill Potter, of the town’s beat section, said: “it’s been quite successful." One commentor notes this program only works if the suspects can read maps!
- Echo News
In Lamar County, MS fire insurance rates are going up. Why? Insurance companies are more carefully coding the fire risk for properties. That's meant that some homeownemers are seeing sharp increases.
It reached the point that Mike Chaney, the state's commissioner of insurance, stepped in, ordering that any insurer using a GIS system had to "implement any resultant incrementally."
I wonder if that means if the companies did not use GIS for the determination, they could jump the rates quickly. I find it odd the technology was specifically mentioned in the order (pdf).
- Hattiesburg America
The Bahamas and Cuba have come to an agreement about a maritime boundary.
The geographic coordinates that form this medium line between The Bahamas and Cuba were generated by a software called ‘Clarisoft’ in conjunction with Geographic Information Systems (GIS). GIS, according to Antonique Strachan, a GIS analyst for the Bahamas National Geographic Information Systems Center (BNGIS), is a base system used to store, analyze and manipulate geographic locations.
- The Nassau Guardian
by Adena Schutzberg on 10/06 at 03:00 AM |
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More than 5.2m people have not reported crimes for fear of deterring home buyers or renters since the Home Office's online crime map was launched in February 2011, according to a research from Direct Line.
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An online poll of 2,685 adults conducted on behalf of the insurance company found that, of the people not reporting crimes, nearly 4m, or 75%, ignored antisocial behaviour such as drug dealing or vandalism for fear of demeaning the neighbourhood.
In response to Direct Line's survey, the Home Office issued the following statement: "It is the crime that impacts negatively upon communities. Crime maps will allow residents to hold their local police to account for the level of crime and antisocial behaviour in their neighbourhood, pushing police to tackle crime which really affects the local community."
The tough part here is confirming the non-reporting is caused by or related to the online map.
- The Guardian
by Adena Schutzberg on 07/13 at 09:03 AM |
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