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		chaosmachine on July 28, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Crime Visualization of San Francisco I can't be the only one who took one look at this and thought: Hey, that's SimCity! http://imgur.com/V2Bvo.png

utexaspunk on July 29, 2010 | | [–]

Looks like the City of San Francisco and I employ similar strategies for fighting crime:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...

drv on July 29, 2010 | [–]

That was my thought too - and I'd be curious to see something like SimCity's police station coverage map overlaid on this.

It amuses me to imagine the mayor's desk with a selection of these maps, plus a little R/C/I readout.

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