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Using Google Maps For Demographics

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: Chris Steins
13 June 2005 - 1:00pm

Google's four-month old mapping service is being used in interesting ways to display a wide variety of demographic information.

"Thanks to Adrian Holovaty, 24, who overlayed Chicago Police Department crime statistics on a Google map, house-hunters in the Albany Park neighborhood can pinpoint all the sexual assaults in the district between May 19 and April 19 on a single map. With each crime marked by a virtual pushpin, Chicagoans can quickly learn what dangerous train stations, pool rooms and alleys to avoid.

...Home buyers can pinpoint the locations of houses in their price range at Cytadia.com. And renters can turn to Housingmaps.com, which melds the technologies of Craigslist and Google, to spot available housing in 29 cities including San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago."

Full Story: Google Maps Tinkerers Make Demographic Data Come Alive
Source: Technology Review, June 9, 2005
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