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Planet of the Apps: Open data initiative

Crime Map England & Wales Free; iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch

The government is spending £10m to make official statistics more accessible to the people who paid for them: us. The open data initiative has put 5,400 “data sets” online free of charge, and the first apps to use them can now be downloaded. Crime Map, for example, uses your device’s location (or a postcode) to plot hundreds of pins on a map: all the crimes recently committed nearby, as logged by the National Policing Improvement Agency. You can filter offences to show just, say, car crime or shoplifting; zoom out to view crime hotspots; or look for the dreaded red pins that denote multiple offences (tap on one to get a breakdown). Invaluable for househunters,…

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