Manchester Evening News joins murder map trend
Posted by
Martin Stabe
on 7 January 2008 at 13:24
Tags: Google Maps, Manchester Evening News, mapping
The Manchester Evening News has produced an interactive online map showing the location of every fatal shooting in Manchester since 1999.
The Google Map was published alongside the MEN’s coverage of a shooting death on New Year’s Eve.
Mapping the locations where crimes have occurred are one of the most popular uses of interactive online maps among news organisations, particularly in the United States.
Since the launch of the pioneering mashup ChicagoCrime.org, many news organisaitons have made interactive maps showing the distribution of various crimes on their patches. Among the most impressive examples of the genre is the homicide map produced by the Los Angeles Times.
It has been far less common in the UK, largely because of the lack of easily-accessible crime data.
