Crime Analysis and GIS tools list from the 2007 Crime Mapping Research Conference 


These materials are made available for download to the audience of Jason Dalton's conference workshops and anyone else who wants them... 

    Alternative Tools for Web Mapping

  • Adobe SVG viewer. A free viewer for SVG vector graphics data. The viewer actually has enough GIS-like functionality to provide a simple web mapping interface on its own
  • FWTools. A handy installer for a collection of geospatial data tools that includes the Geographic Data Abstraction Layer (GDAL), the OpenEV raster imagery analysis tool, and other data maintenance and conversion tools. Be prepared to get into the command line to really exploit this tool, but it's well worth it.
  • GeoCon. A shapefile and mapinfo file translator to get to GML and SVG from your spatial data.
  • Geoserver. The latest generation of standards based web mapping engines. Provides lots of the dynamic interface elements you would expect from modern web mapping interfaces.
  • MapGuide. An open source project from AutoDesk, MapGuide is a very nice and professional level development environment. You can get lots of functionality from MapGuide, if you're prepared to spend time configuring and mastering this tool.
  • OpenLayers. Without a doubt the fastest way to get custom web mapping up and running on your site. Functionality is good in the basic package, but there are limited opportunites for cusomization if you aren't a software developer.
  • uDig. Nice Java based desktop GIS. Key feature is that uDig natively supports WFS and WMS web services.
  • QuantumGIS. Free desktop GIS. qGIS went through a major revision in the last year, and they are picking up support for GRASS in the coming year. Compatible with OGC spec web services.

 

 


    Feel free to drop me an email if you have questions or want to post some best practices for the crime analyst community. I know that Gaston Pezzuci has similar goals, and I'd love to combine efforts.

    Thanks,

    Jason Dalton

    http://www.spadac.com/research/


 

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