Thursday, May 19, 2005

Chicagocrime.org

Cant wait for Google to implement google maps for Kenya and greater Africa for that matter. I mean think of the birth of complimentary technology that would stem out of this. Few poosts ago i gave an example of the brilliant fusion of Google maps & craigsList Realestate listings. Now check THIS out.

chicagocrime.org, is a free browsable database of crimes reported in Chicago that fuses this useful plethora of data with the Google Maps interface, allowing views and persectives of live crime data by street, police district, location etc. As if this was not enough, all this info, in a preferred format, is available through RSS feeds, the same syndication technology that allows the tracking of blogs on feed aggregators such as *cough* *cough*Nchi Yetu Daily or Bloglines.

Cool!

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