My old employers, MapInfo have just published a good Best Practice Guide on publishing crime maps. Sir Norman Bettison, from the UK Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPo), is quoted: “My own police authority in West Yorkshire started two years ago to make available crime mapping data to keep the public informed about local incidents and trends. This fulfils the key responsibility to give information to communities in order that they can see the real level of crime and help the police address […]
Daily Archives: December 4, 2008
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Many in our space have been evangelising the benefits of location within Business Intelligence applications for a long time. To us it seems so obvious, a picture beats a 1000 words, a map beats a 1000 spreadsheet lines. So why is it taking so long for this opportunity/application to take off? Perhaps we need to step back a bit and question the ability of high volumes of BI users to gain any actionable “Intelligence” from […]