Open Source Geographical Profiling? 15
elander asks: "I've been searching for a while for anything to do with geographical profiling, specifically systems that narrow the search area in the hunt for serial criminals (burglars, robbers, rapists etc). So far, the only system I've found is Rigel, a commercial software package, only available through leasing from ECRI. I wonder, aren't there any Open Source alternatives? I'm about to (hopefully, last round of approvals is under way) build a crime scene information system for a Swedish police authority, based on Open Source, and I'd like to be able to offer something along these lines as a future extension."
google maps (Score:2, Insightful)
http://www.google.com/apis/maps/ [google.com]
Re:google maps (Score:2)
-Steve
Re:google maps (Score:2)
RTFP? (Score:2)
Geez people can't even be bothered to read the post anymore!
The parent should get -2 Troll to sink the comment rating to -1.
People make what they use. (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:People make what they use. (Score:3, Funny)
Actually, I was under the impression that most crime was solved by hobbyist engineers / crime fighters. Especially crime committed by arch-villains and extraterrestrials. You probably just think you don't know any because they haven't let you in on their secret identities.
Re:People make what they use. (Score:2)
Re:People make what they use. (Score:1)
Contact Me (Score:2)
Fascinating idea, open source crime tracking (Score:2)
I'd like to see geotagged items tossed into a Watsonish tool that then feeds something like Rigel. I'm not especially interested in crime tracking, but building the tracking systems sounds like fun.
Looking for correlation in apparently unrelated facoids combined with geographic representation and
drupal cms (Score:3, Informative)
Drupal [drupal.org] is an open source content managment system. Drupal is modular, and very flexible, and you can develop custom themes very simply written in pure php [drupal.org]. The reason why I mention drupal, is that theres a few contributed modules that sound like that you are looking for.
Location API [drupal.org] provides the framework for location based, and proximty based searching.
EventFinder [drupal.org] module uses this API to provide sitewide location based searches and more.
There are also two contributed map modules google maps [drupal.org], and geourl [drupal.org].
It seems like the basic functionatily you are asking for is already developed for drupal, It shouldnt take alot of work to throw these together to do what you want to do.
Sometimes you need to pay. (Score:3, Insightful)
Frankly, I suspect you are doing a disservice to your clients by choosing philosophy over functionality.
Mosaic (Score:2)
This is used by marketing departments and political parties to target their attention at those most likely to be responsive, e.g. the uneducated and poor (http://money.guardian.co.uk/creditanddebt/credit c ards/story/0,1456,1529921,00.html [guardian.co.uk]) or swing voters (http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,142 8612,00.htm [guardian.co.uk]