- SpotCrime
SpotCrime is an online crime mapping company, based in Baltimore, Maryland that collects crimes from all over the world and maps the crimes. SpotCrime's website is [http://www.spotcrime.com SpotCrime.com] and it has a sister website at [http://www.ucrime.com UCrime.com] , which maps crimes on over 100 university campuses.
CrimeBaltimore.com
SpotCrime started as a small website, strictly devoted to the city of Baltimore. As the site picked up users, the website was expanded to the entire country and then abroad.
The Rise of SpotCrime.com
SpotCrime.com offers crime maps to over 100 United States cities, including cities such as New York City [ http://www.spotcrime.com/ny/new+york ] , Washington, DC [ http://www.spotcrime.com/dc/washington ] , and Los Angeles [ http://www.spotcrime.com/ca/los+angeles ] . The site also offers email and text-messaging-based alerts to users for free.
UCrime.com Comes Online
UCrime.com was later started as a sister site to Spotcrime.com. UCrime focuses on crime at universities thoughout the United States. UCrime has location-based crime maps on college campuses such as UC-Berkeley [ http://www.ucrime.com/ca/university+of+california-berkeley ] , The University of Texas [ http://www.ucrime.com/tx/university+of+texas+at+austin ] , and The University of Maryland [ http://www.ucrime.com/md/university+of+maryland ] . UCrime also introduced the use of topographical maps to GIS crime maps.
Media Mentions of SpotCrime.com and UCrime.com
Media mentions: Los Angeles's KTLA, [ http://ktla.trb.com/news/local/cyberguy/stv-cyberguy-070708,0,1732816.htmlstory ] , Omaha, Nebraska's Action News [ http://www.action3news.com/Global/category.asp?C=90434&nav=menu550_1 ] , and the Baltimore, Maryland Fox Television affiliate [ http://www.foxbaltimore.com/players/news/crime_justice/vid_160.shtml ] .
References
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
