Comments on: Edmonton Police Service (EPS) Crime Mapping tool now online

By: Wayne

Wayne — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:12:23 +0000

Show the whole City on one map.
It seems Government and Police are always trying to get away from showing the “WHOLE PICURE” or “STACKING THE DECK”…”IT ALWAYS GIVES THE IMMPRESSION THAT THE POLICE ARE HIDING THE WHOLE TRUTH”.

“DOING THESE THINGS CAUSES MISTRUST OF POLICE…IT’S LIKE CHEATING”.

AND LORD KNOWS WE HAVE ALL SEEN ENOUGH OF THIS IN GOVERNMENT, POLICE AND THE BUSINESS WORLD.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:56:11 +0000

You need to show the whole City…or “ALL” on the map, it’s to difficult trying to figure out the names of areas unless you know every area which I don’t.

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By: Casper

Casper — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:31:23 +0000

If you would like Crime Alerts, EPS has that. For example: http://www.edmontonpolice.ca/CommunityPolicing/InYourCommunity/DowntownDivision/DistrictD1.aspx

You just have to pick the division/district you live in and get on that mailing list.

By: joanne

joanne — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:18:59 +0000

how does this work

By: Mack D. Male

Mack D. Male — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:58:42 +0000

Grant: the answer is maybe. I don’t really have any monetization plans at the moment, but I guess you could say I’m reserving the right to explore my options in the future.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:51:43 +0000

If you want to see a more comprehensive City of Edmonton neighborhood map, try this from the city: http://maps.edmonton.ca/

Interactive, informative and very cool!

By: Grant

Grant — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:31:00 +0000

I’m not sure what that means; is it a commercial enterprise then?

By: Mack D. Male

Mack D. Male — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:41:25 +0000

I’ve been making really good progress, so should have something soon. Thing is, I’m not building an open source tool or anything like that. So there will be lots of opportunities to help out, but likly not with the code!

By: Grant

Grant — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:30:10 +0000

Really? You should tell us more, Mack… That’s the kind of thing a lot of us would get on board and help out with

By: Mack D. Male

Mack D. Male — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:15:03 +0000

Rob, Grant: what you’re looking for is http://www.shareedmonton.ca. I’ll have a new version ready for testing soon, with the features you’re talking about

By: Grant

Grant — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:11:45 +0000

@Rob Davy, check out maps.edmonton.ca and it’ll show you the neighborhood name as you mouse over the area. Just sucks that it’s so clunky. I’ll put together something better…
Actually Mack, I’m starting to feel like I should snowball up my ETS project to be just one feature of a general map mashup thing. Seems like we get more data all the time.

By: Rob Davy

Rob Davy — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:10:39 +0000

Stick it to the man Mack!

/ends comment explosion

By: Grant

Grant — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:09:32 +0000

Yeah, definitely a performance thing. I was admiring their asynchronous pin loader with progress bar actually, so they’ve obviously put some thought into making sure it’s snappy. I guess that brings us back to the desire to do pin clustering for performance reasons. I can’t recall why exactly I didn’t see a performance benefit when I did this in GMaps the way I saw it when I did it in Bing… I think it might have been particular to the situation I had; as I recall it was fine at higher zoom levels but unusable at zoom, and the difference was that Bing doesn’t seem to incur much of a performance hit if you add a pin to the map unless it’s actually visible in the map’s bounding box, but with GMaps it seemed to make almost no difference to the performance penalty whether or not the pin was visible. (I just can’t remember why I had to load all the pins onto the map at zoom instead of hooking into the map scroll event and loading them dynamically… whatever. I really should have taken notes. Maybe I did, somewhere. I’ll look that up one day when I’m back at my other office; I’ve been offsite for months.)
Anyway, we could try it, if you really want to make 350 or whatever separate web service calls to load the pins, but I’m pretty sure that’d be a clear violation of their disclaimer.

By: Rob Davy

Rob Davy — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:09:16 +0000

Or what neighbourhood the ENTS space is in…. :S
(www.ents.ca ftw!)