This blog is written by the team behind the SpatialKey visualization system. For more on the application, please see our Technology Preview or check out the examples in the Gallery page. We'll write here about potential use cases for SpatialKey, as well as issues related to GIS, cartography, crime mapping, and geographic visualization.
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 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 [...]