One of the most interesting uses of Google Maps to date comes out of the New York Times who have secured the records for every murder in the city – and plotted them on Google Maps.
It covers a period of 2003-2005 which includes over 1600 murders in the US.
John’s suggestion – Google Maps for traffic deaths in Ireland ©. That’ll show people….
Here’s me lookin’ at technorati this morning and I find this linking back to me.
That was fast:D!
Google Maps for traffic deaths in Ireland – do you want help building that?
I don’t think it should be hard to build actually, I just need to find out how out I can get a list of road fatalities. Maybe from the Gardai or the CSO perhaps..
Looks like its a go for that project…. this I will be most interested in. Hopefully it will drive the point home…. no pun intended. Should be a good wake up call for the people of the country…
OK , I can help in a couple of ways
1) Hosting , if needed
2) Scripting / programming
3) Sponsorship (small scale , but might help depending on what we need to do)
Where do we go from here?
Hi Paul:
I’ve actually got it covered already, thanks:D
The domain I’ve gone with is roaddeaths.net so keep an eye on it, I’m going to try to get this going as quickly as possible.
I’m a developer so I don’t forsee any problems with the development of the site, I may just go with a blog format anyway.
The trick, I think, is going to be getting the stats that I need for this. I’ve emailed the NRA and Dept. of Transport (12 day turnaround on those feckers) so fingers crossed they’ll come through with something.
If not..I’ll be ringing them:D
Did the Irish Times not publish this information a while back? (more than 12 months ago).
It’s the sort of info the paper would have – probably better to get *most* of the info and then fill in the gaps later.
Paul:
I think for the moment I want to concentrate on 2006 and then when I have the time work back the way.
The NRA website has some good studies published for recent years here -> http://www.nra.ie/PublicationsResources/ListofPublications/RoadSafety/
You’re dead right about the papers though, I’ll see what I can get from them too. Thanks.
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