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Google Map Hack & Chicago Crime Data

Posted by Hemos on from the good-applicatons dept.

joepez writes "In recent weeks we've seen some great Google Maps hacks (HousingMaps, Google's own Ride Finder, etc.), but this weekend Adrian has brought us something truly innovative. He's merged Google map data with Chicago crime data to present a once a day updated crime map of the entire city, including some really nice summarized data. Adrian calls the project Chicagocrime.org. How long till we have real time crime data showing up on Google's map? Pull open HousingMaps next to Chicagocrime.org and figure out if that low rent apartment is truly worth it. Or is this all a clever trick on Google's part to build up more and more third parties dependent upon Google?" There's also a cheap gas hack as well.

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  1. Cheap Gas Hack? by johnamus · · Score: 0, Troll

    A more appropriate title would be comparitively relative inexpensive gas hack. Gas at $2.00 a gallon is not cheap, and the slow pace the oil companies are using in rolling back prices suggests they are scaling back prices slowly in order to find the highest price consumers are willing to pay.

  2. Real Time Cell Phone by crudeawakening · · Score: 0, Troll

    Soon someone will come out with a site that displays your location (taken from your cell phone) in real time. Then they can pull this up with real time crime and solve crimes in real time without invetigating.

  3. You gotta be kidding me by bohemian_observer · · Score: 0, Troll

    So in Chicago, there is crime on nearly every other street at any time a day ?
    Holy god is that really true? Can't believe that.

    I live in a small independent country in the mid Europe and there was no crime around that I can remember, and I am living in a 100k+ city. I can't even remember that police hotline number well, never used it and probably never will. I can walk our dog with my girlfriend to any place here, no problem, never face any kind of crime anywhere.

    So I must conclude that if u speak lang. that nobody in the world can speak and live where winters are too cold for hispanian or negro's ass to withstand then our society is pretty well protected from foreign crime makers. Hell, if I can be incorporated in here, even daytrade on Wallstreet from here, register TM/patent on USPTO from here, watch that HDTV FOX network TV over "torrent" feeds here then Do I really need to live in that "oh" so amazing and flashing U.S. ?