Comments on: Crime mapping, Kyoto & the Tories http://thinkwhere.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/crime-mapping-kyoto-the-tories/ not quite another geo blog Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:34:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Brain Off » OpenStreetMap in Japan :: Mikel Maron :: Building Digital Technology for Our Planet http://thinkwhere.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/crime-mapping-kyoto-the-tories/#comment-6675 Brain Off » OpenStreetMap in Japan :: Mikel Maron :: Building Digital Technology for Our Planet Mon, 05 May 2008 21:43:51 +0000 http://thinkwhere.wordpress.com/?p=123#comment-6675 [...] Crime mapping, Kyoto & the Tories [...] [...] Crime mapping, Kyoto & the Tories [...]

]]> By: tim http://thinkwhere.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/crime-mapping-kyoto-the-tories/#comment-6655 tim Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:09:59 +0000 http://thinkwhere.wordpress.com/?p=123#comment-6655 Great stuff to have good services for free - the main thing, however, is open access to the data - and in the UK, good quality geocoders (good enough to be able to satisfy the accuracy and privacy issues required) are not free. Also, even just matching an address with a postcode (let alone geocoding it) can render a database un-free. The two key terms are "derivative works" and "database copyright". However, one solution may be for the released data to not be geocoded, and just have the addresses in there - letting third parties geocode them. Data cleansing could be applied beforehand to obfuscate the addresses based on the rules. We'll have to see if they are willing to release full addresses of locations - it could be unpopular, and possibly break the data protection act (identification of individuals; apparently a postcode is non-identifying). Of course, I Am Not A Lawyer, etc. Great stuff to have good services for free - the main thing, however, is open access to the data - and in the UK, good quality geocoders (good enough to be able to satisfy the accuracy and privacy issues required) are not free. Also, even just matching an address with a postcode (let alone geocoding it) can render a database un-free. The two key terms are “derivative works” and “database copyright”.

However, one solution may be for the released data to not be geocoded, and just have the addresses in there - letting third parties geocode them. Data cleansing could be applied beforehand to obfuscate the addresses based on the rules. We’ll have to see if they are willing to release full addresses of locations - it could be unpopular, and possibly break the data protection act (identification of individuals; apparently a postcode is non-identifying). Of course, I Am Not A Lawyer, etc.

]]> By: colin http://thinkwhere.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/crime-mapping-kyoto-the-tories/#comment-6654 colin Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:17:29 +0000 http://thinkwhere.wordpress.com/?p=123#comment-6654 We'd be willing to offer our mapping and database services to the UK for free. Spotcrime in the US has compiled data from multiple sources to become one of the largest uniform nationwide crime mashups. We’d be willing to offer our mapping and database services to the UK for free. Spotcrime in the US has compiled data from multiple sources to become one of the largest uniform nationwide crime mashups.

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