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Met launches London crime maps

London's Metropolitan Police has launched the first test of its planned 'crime mapping' application, and at first glance, it's really quite nice. There's data from borough to 'sub-ward' (a few streets), although at the moment it's only carrying aggregated totals of 'burglary, robbery and vehicle crime'. The 'high/average/low' colour coding makes it easy to take in; [...] read on »

An idea whose time has come

Crime mapping is front-page news today (in the Telegraph anyway). Most of the stories follow a predictable pattern: Ministers say it will inform the public, and make the police more accountable, but it'll lead to house price chaos. Etcetera. But I'm finding myself infuriated by the Telegraph leader column which proclaims: The Conservative Party has appeared a [...] read on »