Wednesday, May 17, 2006
chicagocrime.org: Chicago crime database
From the BBC website:
Web mashups
In Silicon Valley, the current rage is called "web 2.0" - a reference to the web as a computing platform in its own right. As more and more companies give third parties a way to combine their web-based data and services with other companies' data and services, clever folks are mashing things together in remarkable ways. For example ... ChicagoCrime.org, which puts government-provided crime data on Google maps and lets people drill down into detail.
Now add to this the idea that everyday folks can start annotating maps and other kinds of information on their own. The possibilities seem endless..."
From the BBC website:
Web mashups
In Silicon Valley, the current rage is called "web 2.0" - a reference to the web as a computing platform in its own right. As more and more companies give third parties a way to combine their web-based data and services with other companies' data and services, clever folks are mashing things together in remarkable ways. For example ... ChicagoCrime.org, which puts government-provided crime data on Google maps and lets people drill down into detail.
Now add to this the idea that everyday folks can start annotating maps and other kinds of information on their own. The possibilities seem endless..."
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