A Cimex study looked at a bunch of police-operated crime maps in the UK and found them confusing and difficult to use, even when compared to the tabular crime data presented on UpMyStreet, a non-governmental website offering information for people planning a move within or to the UK.
The police websites mentioned in the article include:
Urban tree locations come courtesy of Friends of the Urban Forest, one day’s worth of taxi cab locations from Yellow Cab (via Cabspotting), and a week’s worth of reported crime incidents from Crime Reports.
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