Awesome job, any chance of extending this to Europe? (Like Paris)
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#32Awesome job, any chance of extending this to Europe? (Like Paris)
Thank you! We are definitely interested in expanding to as many cities and countries as possible. We focused on large US cities with good datasets for this MVP, but depending on how things go, we will hopefully be expanding to cities across the world very soon.
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#33Very cool! Car Break-In useful for “safe to park here?”
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#34where did you source your data?
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#35Location based danger zone notifications would be helpful. "Warning: You are entering an area with a large number of reported muggings."
Stay tuned for some exciting feature launches in the near future :)
Re: Show HN: Play with an interactive heatmap of SF crime (and other cities)
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's an important truth that walking a mile in a high population density area puts you at a higher crime risk than walking a mile in a medium or low population density area.
It's the opposite - right? There are more gross crimes in the high-density area, but your chance of suffering one is much lower (all else being equal). Trying to apply statistics directly like this is generally inaccurate, but to the degree the numbers say anything it's the opposite of what you say.
Fair point, it's more complicated than I originally thought.
Density increases the number of potential criminals you pass but also increases the number of alternative victims they could target.
If you're a uniquely attractive/visibly wealthy personal walking home from a night out then the risk of passing more criminals dominates the advantage of alterative targets. After all, there's nothing really competing with you.
However, if you look like normal person but happen to have a million dollar watch in your pocket then you're conceivably safer in a city. Because there'd be so many alternative victims who may be more attractive targets than you. Compared to the countryside robber who only gets a single target per night.
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#37Also serves as a map of where to find prostitutes. Apparently, that's the area around South Van Ness & 20th St in SF.
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#38FYI none of your images are loading for me, they all return 301s repeatedly until the browser gives up.
Hmm, thanks. Hopefully this doesn't include the map itself. Would you kindly provide the browser / OS combo you are operating? Will try and look into this.
Firefox, Windows. The map loads fine, just the icons don't work.
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#39Location based danger zone notifications would be helpful. "Warning: You are entering an area with a large number of reported muggings."
Stay tuned for some exciting feature launches in the near future :)
Please let me configure it so that I can play Kenny Loggins' Danger Zone as my notification.
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#40where did you source your data?
Public datasets. You can view the sources for each city by expanding the "Data Sources" tab in the sidebar menu.