Open Data and Crowd Sourcing meeting to fight against crime

peets 11 years ago |

It would be nice to have some numbers / a scale on the map to interpret what red means. Seattle has twice as much crime reported as Boston, yet Boston looks redder.

vlamanna 11 years ago | |

Thanks for the feedback, this is definitely something we will be improving in the near future.

posabsolute 11 years ago |

Nice use of open data, I can see this very handy when you are looking for an apartment or a house. The baltimore crime map is also very interesting.

vlamanna 11 years ago | |

Thanks, it can also be used when travelling to make sure you only visit safe neighborhoods.

jstoiko 11 years ago |

UI is nice & clean although I did not understand right away what the service did. Maybe a tag line would help.

vlamanna 11 years ago | |

I've been thinking about it, do you think a welcome screen could help?

jstoiko 11 years ago | | |

Not if you land on the map like I did.

vlamanna 11 years ago | | |

You actually have a pretty good point, I'll have to think about this to find a nice way to fix that. I'm sure you are not the only one to feel this way.

Mikechaos 11 years ago |

How did you find all the open data and is there cities that you couldn't do because of that?

The rendering is really nice!

vlamanna 11 years ago | |

The open data is coming from the cities that are open sourcing it. For now it's very limited I found. UK on the flip side was pretty impressive, the government is providing a feed for the whole country all in one place.