4 ms·
Show HN: CrimeStream – Tulsa's police dispatch calls mapped out in realtime
- JshWright 11y agoI assume "Alarm - Intrusion" is just a burglary alarm activation. Why is that considered "serious"?
- baudday 11y agoI get the descriptions from the police department's data and attempt to make general classifications based on those descriptions. An alarm, while not always serious, can be serious. Without knowing more about the incidents I have no way to determine if an alarm is false or not so I just display them all as serious. It may be worth creating a separate classification for alarms
- JshWright 11y agoThe _vast_ majority of automatic alarm activations are false alarms (whether it's police or fire). I don't know anyone in emergency services who would consider an automatic alarm activation a "serious" incident. They're more of an annoyance...
- mintplant 11y agoThe skull-and-crossbones icon is also maybe not the best choice for these. At first glance I thought that meant there had been a fatality. A plain red marker for "serious" incidents would be better.
- brianberlin 11y agoNice work! It'd be nice I think to be able to zoom out a bit for perspective.
- baudday 11y agoI suppose I can allow a couple more zoom levels. I'm just trying to limit my requests to mapbox as much as possible since this is all out of my pocket
- noblethrasher 11y agoNice work. I live in Stillwater, but come to Tulsa often. I'd like to buy you coffee if we're ever in the same town at the same time.
- baudday 11y agoAwesome! I actually went to OSU! Get at me on twitter if you're ever in Tulsa and would like to meet up. @willem_jr
- brianzelip 11y agoThanks for putting the source up [0]. I need to work with leaflet.js and mapbox so this will be a useful reference. [0]https://github.com/baudday/crimestream https://github.com/baudday/crimestream