Guys, Thanks for the fantastic responses & suggestions. I'm going to take you up on the offers for tech assistance, & will also keep you in the loop on progress. Having spent almost a yr here in the heart of Silicon Valley in the US, I am convinced that location-aware & geo-mobile is the next major wave in media & comms. And, for that to happen, we need open source maps.
Cheers, Justin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nic Roets" <nro...@gmail.com> To: "justin arenstein" <justin.arenst...@stanford.edu> Cc: talk-za@openstreetmap.org Sent: Sunday, 4 April, 2010 02:05:09 GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] INTRODUCTION & REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE Hello Justin, On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 1:44 AM, <justin.arenst...@stanford.edu> wrote: > [3] Tracking crime reports, from both police & private security companies, > and mapping it so that it is accessible to ordinary residents so they can > begin to understand the underlying trends, hotspots, etc. I'd like to use > this project to take the interactivity one step further, so that in addition > to them being able to send in crime reports, the site / map will also send > back alerts to users when a crime happens in their neighbourhood. > Eblockwatch.co.za already collects crime reports from its users and alerts them when they receive new reports. It's interface is however quite terrible. Even worse is the fact they send a lot of sensationalist emails to their users and the only way to block that is to unsubscribe completely. Something that combines the visual presentation of oakland.crimespotting.org and the ease of use of openstreetbugs.schokokeks.org will be ideal. I am however already spending to much time writing openstreetmap software and my knowledge of openlayers is too limited. Regards, Nic
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