tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-272514622011-08-27T09:40:54.907-04:00Brought to you by the Gallery Place Living bloggplivinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01273198410773111213noreply@blogger.comBlogger61100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27251462.post-1154652479067705372006-08-03T20:44:00.000-04:002006-10-23T17:40:59.833-04:00We're figuratively passing the torch, at least. Tom at <a href="http://www.crimeindc.org">www.crimeindc.org</a> created an advanced version of a DC crime google map mashup, so we're going to retire dccrimemaps.blogspot! The greatest thing about Tom's site is that he is offering RSS feeds of all of the crime data. A big thanks to Tom for giving back to the community!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27251462-115465247906770537?l=dccrimemaps.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>gplivinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01273198410773111213noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27251462.post-1149219210085588542006-06-01T23:29:00.000-04:002006-08-02T16:41:14.780-04:00Thanks for visiting our experiment with Google Maps! We are only posting 1 weeks worth of data at a time due to the excessive loading times of Internet Explorer and Firefox. Firefox is the preferred browser for this data-laden map! Explorer takes about 5 seconds to load the map and is sluggish when navigating the map. The map data was split up into the 7 different Police Districts to help with loading times - enjoy!<br /><br />Send Comments/Suggestions/Questions to gpliving (at) gmail.com!<br /><br /><strong>Note:</strong> If prompted by Internet Explorer to "abort the script," answer NO.<br /><br />Mapping Stats: 1181 total crimes, 74 discarded (due to absent or ambiguous address)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27251462-114921921008558854?l=dccrimemaps.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>gplivinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01273198410773111213noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27251462.post-1148233823101140182006-05-23T12:02:00.000-04:002006-05-23T12:13:02.206-04:00Thanks for visiting our experiment with Google Maps! We are only posting 1 weeks worth of data at a time due to the excessive loading times of Internet Explorer and Firefox. Firefox is the preferred browser for this data-laden map! Explorer takes about 5 seconds to load the map and is sluggish when navigating the map. The map data was split up into the 7 different Police Districts to help with loading times - enjoy!<br /><br />Send Comments/Suggestions/Questions to gpliving (at) gmail.com!<br /><br /><strong>Note:</strong> In case anyone was wondering why there wasn't an update last week, the MPD office that posts crimewatch data got new PCs and apparently wasn't able to provide this service during the transition/upgrade.<br /><br /><strong>Update:</strong> Added data for the 17th and 18th.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27251462-114823382310114018?l=dccrimemaps.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>gplivinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01273198410773111213noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27251462.post-1147296373154579032006-05-10T17:24:00.000-04:002006-05-19T13:19:32.856-04:00Thanks for visiting our experiment with Google Maps! We are only posting 1 weeks worth of data at a time due to the excessive loading times of Internet Explorer and Firefox. Firefox is the preferred browser for this data-laden map! Explorer takes about 5 seconds to load the map and is sluggish when navigating the map. The map data was split up into the 7 different Police Districts to help with loading times - enjoy!<br /><br /><strong>Note: </strong>This map adds three more days of data to the previous map.<br /><br />Send Comments/Suggestions/Questions to gpliving (at) gmail.com!<br /><br /><strong>Update:</strong> In case anyone was wondering why there hasn't been an update in the past week, the MPD office that posts crimewatch data got new PCs and hasn't been able to provide this service during the transition/upgrade.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27251462-114729637315457903?l=dccrimemaps.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>gplivinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01273198410773111213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27251462.post-1146853804787074192006-05-05T14:29:00.000-04:002006-05-07T20:37:32.096-04:00Thanks for visiting our experiment with Google Maps! We are only posting 1 weeks worth of data at a time due to the excessive loading times of Internet Explorer and Firefox. <strong>Firefox is the preferred browser for this data-laden map!</strong> Explorer takes about 5 seconds to load the map and is sluggish when navigating the map. The map data was split up into the 7 different Police Districts to help with loading times - enjoy!<br /><br /><strong>Update:</strong> Map was updated slightly - some addresses were wrong due to a change in the source data format.<br /><br /><strong>Update #2:</strong> Duplicate addresses are now seperated out into different markers.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27251462-114685380478707419?l=dccrimemaps.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>gplivinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01273198410773111213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27251462.post-1146295612373666922006-04-29T03:23:00.000-04:002006-05-02T11:18:55.296-04:00<!-- <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4000/2238/1600/district04.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4000/2238/320/district04.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a> --><br />Thanks for visiting our experiment with Google Maps! We are only posting 1 weeks worth of data at a time due to the excessive loading times of Internet Explorer and Firefox. <strong>Firefox is the preferred browser for this data-laden map!</strong> Explorer takes about <strike>30</strike> 5 seconds to load the map and is sluggish when navigating the map.<br /><br /><strong>Update:</strong> The map data was split up into the 7 different Police Districts to help with loading times - enjoy!<br /><br /><strong>Update #2:</strong> Thanks to <a href="http://www.dcist.com/archives/2006/05/01/mapping_crime_i_1.php">DCist</a> for the link!<br /><br /><strong>Update #3:</strong> Well, I'm not a big fan of advertising, but I am in the market for a new job in the DC area! If you enjoy my work and have a need for a talented computer scientist, shoot me an email at gpliving (at) gmail.com. Thank you!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27251462-114629561237366692?l=dccrimemaps.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>gplivinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01273198410773111213noreply@blogger.com9