Where 2.0 and Crisis Mapping
Our own Doug McCune, SpatialKey engineer extraordinaire, will be presenting a session about Crisis Mapping at Where 2.0 in San Jose this Thursday, April 1st. If you are attending the event, please come to Ballroom III at 4:50pm. Analyzing conflicts via maps is not new. For centuries generals and politicians have moved pushpins on maps to [...]
Where are the Loud Neighbors? Late Night Noise in Sacramento, CA
The Sacramento Police Department makes their dispatch database publicly available via monthly text files. These files are exported from Sacramento’s Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system, which supports police dispatch and response functions in their 911 center. These files include information about each dispatch, including details like date and time, type of call – from homicides [...]
Harnessing the power of City data with SpatialKey
Cities are opening up and providing access to data as part of an initiative to improve the accessibility, transparency, and accountability of City governments. Several cities, including New York City, Washington DC and San Francisco, are among a few to lead this initiative in an effort to serve the public by creating “data mines” of [...]
International Geocoding
Since the initial Beta release of SpatialKey in March we have received many requests for International geocoding. If you are not familiar with the term, geocoding it is the process of converting street addresses, or zip codes (postal codes) to geographic coordinates often expressed as latitude and longitude. With SpatialKey we are using TIGER (Topologically [...]
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