SpotCrime - The Public's Crime Map

Since we've been mapping crime data in Philadelphia, we've decided to enter a submission into the OpenDataPhilly Visualization contest. Philly has been one of the most progressive cities in terms of open crime data. They've published an open crime data feed since the beginning. The maps we submitted to the visualization contest include SpotCrime.com and our daily and weekly email alerts. Both maps use Google to plot Philly crime data that's available at the OpenDataPhilly.org website. We've been using Google maps since our conception. In addition to our web and email, we also have apps for Android , iPhone , and Amazon Fire . And, we have SpotCrime.info (no ads) and MyLocalCrime (different colors and icons). As you may know, the SpotCrime  site is interactive. You can search by address, date range, keyword, date, and/or crime type on our Philly SpotCrime map. Learn more about searching by date range here . Clicking on each icon brings up and information

SpotCrime is now mapping crime in Lancaster County, PA ! Lancaster County holds the city of Lancaster and is known to many as Pennsylvania Dutch Country. Be careful pronouncing the county and city name while in Lancaster - the locals will be able to tell you are from out of town if you pronounce Lancaster the usual American pronunciation of 'lan-kast-er' instead of the local way of 'lank-iss-ter'. Lancaster County is located in central PA near Harrisburg and York . It's population is over half a million people and holds Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pepperidge Farms, Dutch Wonderland, and the Corporate Headquarters of MapQuest Did you know that the southern boundary of Pennsylvania, encompassing Lancaster County, was in dispute for years with Maryland during the 1730s? In 1767 the current Pennsylvania-Maryland border was established by the Mason-Dixon line. SpotCrime also maps nearby cities like Harrisburg and York and is partnered with

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania is the capital of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is also the state's ninth largest city with a population of 48,950 according to a 2000 census. SpotCrime is proud to feature up to date information for Harrisburg, directly from the Police Department on our maps. According to the map above, Harrisburg's most frequent crimes are crimes that fall under the category of "other" and arrests. To view these incidents and crime of all types occurring in Harrisburg please click on the following link to see a fully interactive crime map. http://spotcrime.com/pa/harrisburg As always, SpotCrime provides free crime alerts by email and text messages. Know your neighborhood with SpotCrime.com