The Los Angeles Times newspaper has built a brilliant Google Maps mashup called THE HOMICIDE MAP showing all murders in the city this year (515 at post time). The functionality of the data presentation, and user-selectable options for specifying age, race, gender, cause of death and day of the week are enough to make Edward Tufte cry.
Labels: google maps, homicide, Los Angeles, mashup
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Actually, LA isn't the first city to have a homicide google maps mashup. The Toronto Star in Toronto, Ontario, Canada has been doing this since 2005:
http://www3.thestar.com/static/googlemaps/starmaps.html?xml=homicides.xml
They also have a goole maps mashup of busted grow ops:
http://www3.thestar.com/static/googlemaps/starmaps.html?xml=growops.xml
Links did not show up properly. Here are the links to the Toronto Homicide & Growop mashups:
Homicies in 2007
Homicides in 2006
Homicides in 2005
Grow Ops
This isn't a mashup but it's interesting: http://inquirer.philly.com/graphics/murders_map/
Murders in philadelphia in the 2006
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