The team behind the Police Department‘s updated crime mapping system won a Special Achievement Award from GIS firm Esri, the Philadelphia Daily News reported. Launched in October 2012, the GIS is one ...

Philly’s cops are still using old school pushpins and paper maps to track crime patterns, but a new crime mapping system aims to change that. A screenshot of the heat map feature on the Police ...

Geographic information system-based analysis is a hot topic in government circles, but there are few places government employees can go to get accredited training. That's one of the reasons Virginia's ...

June’s Geointelligence Insider article on Jack Maple was the human interest article. One of the readers of June’s article had the opportunity to meet Jack Maple. I appreciate the feedback. This ...

THE Home Office's new crime map has settled down after its lame start on January 31st, it seems. The website, which lets viewers plug in postcodes in England and Wales to see how much crime and ...

The City of Redmond has launched a new crime-mapping feature on its website to allow users to see where and when police activity has occurred. Users can search for specific types of crimes, along with ...

More and more advanced crime mapping methods have been used for several dozen years for imaging, analyzing, and, consequently, preventing, and combating crime. Initially, they served only specialized ...

My Poynter colleague Larry Larsen spotted the debut of ChicagoCrime.org, and he’s right: It’s amazing. The site is an interactive and visual database of crimes committed in Chicago. A really cool ...

Who better to know about connections than a GIS professional whose very job is discovering them? Weaving a thread through time from decades ago isn’t a typical geospatial connection, but this one is, ...

MOBILE, Alabama-- The founder of a free crime mapping website is calling claims that his company may have hacked into restricted data from the Mobile County Sheriff's Office, including social security ...