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Ashfield District Council are running a competition with a difference for Christmas. Their ResponseMX powered web mapping application MOLE has been turned into a Christmas quiz that involves solving clues to find the location of Santa’s reindeer. Give it a try!
Just a quick note to say that the GIS team at Ashfield District Council have been busy adding content to Mole2 their new internet application built using ResponseMX.
Ashfield District Council have launched the first datasets on their Internet application Mole2 (Mapping Our Local Environment).
Datasets have so far been uploaded for planning history, local plans and councillors.
The West Midlands region is reacting to the launch of MyNeighbourhood. The site has had over 1,000 visitors in the first couple of days, with some interesting responses in the feedback section. We’ll be reviewing these over the coming days. So far, there has been information about MyNeighbourhood on the Bimringham Mail, Birmingham Post, HeartFM, Kerrang Radio, TouchFM and BRMB.
Face facts and feel safer – that’s the message behind an important new website launched by West Midlands Police today. http://www.myneighbourhood.info/ gives detailed information on local crime levels and trends, broken down to neighbourhood level, enabling people to get a valued insight into trends in their area. ResponseMX, Dotted Eyes’ web mapping platform, is an integral part of the website, allowing members of the public to get up-to-date information on a wide variety of crime categories including house burglary, robbery, theft of and from vehicles, common assault and wounding.
Thematic maps indicate crime levels for each neighbourhood, showing users how their area compares to the force average and indicating if crime levels are rising or falling. Users can zoom in and out very easily and see local Points of Interest.
The site links to local operational command unit mini-sites, which contain details of local neighbourhood policing teams, and to a ‘neighbourhood toolkit’, crammed with crime prevention tips. Dotted Eyes has also produced an API which allows third party websites to link directly to a crime map for a specific postcode or neighbourhood.
An online poll section gives the public the chance to vote on a range of community safety issues which may affect their neighbourhood, and a ‘Have Your Say’ section allows them to take part in an instant on-online vote.
The data is uploaded on a monthly basis direct from police recording databases.
Assistant Chief Constable, Suzette Davenport, commented, “There is often a gap between the level of crime the public think is happening in their neighbourhood and the actual crime levels. This website is about being open and honest with the public about real crime levels, supplying communities with facts which will hopefully help them realise crime levels are not as high as they had feared, which in turn makes them feel safer.”
Steve Rose, Birmingham Partnership Information and Intelligence Manager for West Midland Police, said, “ResponseMX helped our website development team win the ‘Most Innovative Use of Mapping’ prize at the International Crime Mapping conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The site was recognised as a good example of the way the police can reassure the public by keeping them informed about local crime trends.”
Charlie Gilbert from Dotted Eyes and Steve Rose from West Midlands Police will deliver a paper entitled ‘Face the facts and feel safer – informing the public’ at the AGI Crime and Disorder SIG to be held in Liverpool on 16th October.
