by Matt Ball on August 21, 2009
There’s a great new website on crime mapping for San Francisco called San Francisco Crimespotting, created by Stamen Design. The site was enabled by the opening of data on the DataSF site, and speaks to the creativity that can be unleashed by providing transparency to government data resources. Brady Forest on O’Reilly Radar did a [...]
by Matt Ball on August 21, 2009
The movie District 9, that opened in theaters last week, details a segregated society between humans and aliens. To support the film there’s a web mapping feature that pictures the segregated city, with crime maps for both humans and non-humans. The site makes good use of a map interface, with embedded media pop-ups that include [...]