I’ve been helping Mike and Tom with some new improvements on Oakland Crimespotting. We’ve added a new feature for filtering crime by time of day. We’ve been calling this new feature the “time pie”! The time pie shows a 24 hour period and allows the user to select time segments of commute hours, nightlife hours and police shifts. Sunrise and sunsets hours are also indicated. The user may also select specific hours by dragging thru the time pie. The date slider on the map has also been updated with the ability to page forward and backward through time for data since summer of 2007.
We’ve also switched the map to Pale Dawn, the map style we created for Cloudmade early this year. This map style was created specifically for data overlay.
Read more about the new features:
Oakland Crimespotting update: the pie of time, Stamen
Historical Hurricanes and Oakland Crime, Tom
oakland crime maps XII: the pie of time, Mike
