Check out "Mapping Hacks," a new book on the O'reilly list by Schuyler Erle, Rich Gibson, Jo Walsh at http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mappinghks/ "Mapping Hacks...
We all would like less crime and fewer bad guys. To analze crime with GIS would be very interesting. A single crime, like the TV shows would be not maybe the ...
Does anyone know if the police are mapping white collar and non-violent crimes? All of the work I've seen so far involves violent crimes, drugs and property...
I haven't looked into the literature to see if anyone is doing this, but on it's face, what would the spatial component of white collar crimes be? To have a...
Matt, I can use your examples to buttress my pointed question about spatial mapping of white collar crime. "Take insurance fraud. Where does that occur? Does...
This might be helpful to some folks: http://www.ncjrs.org/html/nij/mapping/ch1.html -Malcolm "Secure Server" made the following annotations on 07/15/2005...
I'll make the reading easier by not including the prevous posts. Malcolm made a comment about white collar crime not being pursued as much as violent crime....
I guess I forgot about this not only being about GIS, but has the second component, journalism. using the same concepts, though, it would be easier to find...
I kept thinking about how to analyze huge and varied data sources to produce something useful. If I focus on anti-terror, something we all should agree is...
Two posts concerning mapping based on something besides lat/long - I guess I had better do my duty. Topographic maps are based on something called UTM -...
Thank you Adella. As for news and GIS, here is an article that came out today about what a big deal very simple overlays have become, when access to nice ...
Joe, There is social networks software out there, some of it free (!) that social network scientists use to analyze and portray networks. Often studies are...
All: I was recently introduced to LandSerf, a GIS application at our favorite price -- free. I haven't used it, but a colleague whose experience I respect,...
All: My apologies. Obviously the LandSerf URL didn't get included in the previous message. Go here: http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~jwo/landserf/index.html ...
Has anyone on the list ever read the book? I am curious about anyone's thoughts on it. -Malcolm How the News Makes Us Dumb: The Death of Wisdom in an...
Thank you. I'll check out the book, though I've not heard of it yet. It is a topic of my own curiosity. When books were a treasure, people wrote differently....
funny thought. In my imagination, the future of news is as follows. Parody comedy news with erotic entertainment delivery becomes the actual news. Traditional...
Just to let members know that Pictometry has all of Orleans Parish geo-referenced and available online. 6" per pixel resolution oblique aerial images were...
Journalism in GIS is often biased and company-driven. That's why I don't feel like I'm spamming the group with this announcement. In fact, I won't even copy ...
I've asked ArcMap 8.3 to draw 2,000-foot buffers around a group of geocoded points, but I'm wondering whether they really are 2,000-foot buffers. Using ...
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Jeff, Check your projections. ... From: JAGIS-L@yahoogroups.com [mailto:JAGIS-L@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Roberts, Jeff Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005...
The projections for the buffer and point layers appear to be the same. Coordinate System: Lambert_Conformal_Conic False_Easting: 3000000.000316 False_Northing:...
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Now I think my map is OK, after comparing the distances on an old-fashioned paper map. Mapquest's driving distance is very different than the as-the-crow-flies...
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Jeff, Where I work, we use some pseudo gis tools and I have found that distance confusions arise around these areas: Differences in map projections being...
From "Cartography," the Canadian Cartography Association's most excellent blog at http://ccablog.blogspot.com/ "The self-declared goal of the Map Projections...
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