Archive for September 2008

Ogden Police Chief Jon Greiner on SpatialKey

In Uncategorized on 8 September 2008 tagged crime mapping, heatmaps, press, users with 1 comment

The Ogden Police Department is the first department in the country to implement the enterprise version of the SpatialKey Law Enforcement Dashboard. In a recent article on the Senate Site (“Unofficial Voice of the Utah Senate Majority”), Ogden Police Chief Jon Greiner says of SpatialKey: …it’s a combination map of satellite images, street map, and [...]

SpatialKey featured in ComputerWorld

In Uncategorized on 3 September 2008 tagged business intelligence, IT, press with no comments

SpatialKey is featured on the cover and in an article entitled “Can Web 2.0 save BI?” in the most recent issue of ComputerWorld. The article — about the use of browser-based visualizations and analytical dashboards for business intelligence — features an interview with Chief Jon Greiner of the Ogden Police Department in Utah. Ogden is [...]

Symbolizing point data in SpatialKey

In Uncategorized on 2 September 2008 tagged heatmaps, proportional symbols, symbolization, theory with 1 comment

SpatialKey is especially well-suited at representing point datasets with thousands, even tens of thousands, of rows.  Symbolizing such datasets offers many cartographic challenges.  Rendering the individual points is the simplest strategy but quickly leads to lost data via overlap and cognitive overload due to the sheer number of displayed points.  Further, symbolizing points with points [...]