Crime maps for Web GIS

The Web GIS I decided to use for this assignment is a community crime tracker, also publicly known as a community crime map. The purpose of this Web GIS application is to provide citizens, government officials, and public safety personnel knowledge of where crimes are occurring, as well as the dates and times of the incidents. This type of analysis provides crime intelligence for spatial, temporal, and density information. It tells the public where crimes are occurring, when they are occurring, and what crimes are occurring. This is useful to all people who utilize the web map tool. It identifies safe areas to live, areas to avoid when going out at night, and it provides a general understanding of where public safety needs to patrol to deter crime from occurring. I would say that the main audience for this Web GIS tool is a citizen, as public safety tends to have more advanced spatial GIS analysis for Hot spot mapping and crime density. This tool is mainly for college students, concerned parents, adults deciding on where to move, and even government officials deciding on where to spend tax dollars on public safety. Even lawyers utilize community crime maps to pull spatial crime data for lawsuits on apartment complexes or event locations.

The data for this wireframe will consist of crime offense data according to the NIBRS standard for crime reporting, which is the crime offense, date the crime occurred, the location, the time, and the number of offenses as well as other pertinent information. The data on the web map will also contain an arrest layer for the location of arrests of criminals and the level of arrest, such as a felony arrest or misdemeanor. Most community crime maps show only crime, but some show calls for service, arrests, and other data specific to crime analysis. This application will only show crime and arrests. The other data required is city boundaries, state and county boundaries, or any kind of community polygon or spatial area. The address locator on the web map will utilize city names, county names, zip codes, and street addresses with the Arc GIS world locator.

Some examples of community crime maps that are in use today are seen below. I personally have built one for my current job and we have identified over 100 citizens using it since it launched. Other sources are Lexus Nexus, Spot crime, and Crime Mapping. I think this type of Web GIS is unique because the graphs, charts and map empower the public to make smart and safe decisions, and it informs them of what is going on in their community.

Low Fidelity Wireframe:

Website wireframe low fidelity deliv 2_Nathan Berger.jpeg

High Fidelity Wireframe:

Website wireframe Lab 1 High Fidelity.jpeg

Web GIS Lab 1 sources on the internet

https://www.crimemapping.com/map/agency/149Links to an external site.

https://spotcrime.com/map?lat=34.0426752&lon=-83.214336&address=Links to an external site.

https://communitycrimemap.com/Links to an external site.

https://athensclarke.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=f3f473d28d8e4fb1bf9e0a817bd39582

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