El Paso, TexasMap showing the location of El Paso, Texas. The town, laid out in 1859, was on the Butterfield Stage Route toCalifornia. It grew slowly until 1881, when four railways arrived; by 1890 its population had increased more than 10-fold to 10,338. Meanders of the Rio Grande ...
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Social media posts incorporate real-time information that has, elsewhere, been exploited to predict social trends. This paper considers whether such information can be useful in relation to crime and fear of crime. A large number of tweets were collected
Looking at these maps recently, one curiosity that struck me was that the map for incarceration rates shows a clear distance-decay pattern (the kind of pattern we older geographers love to find, even if we can’t explain it!). The map is a screenshot of incarceration rates in 2012. The...
The stage is now set : we have the map from google maps and we have the crime data from the Houston Police Department which has been geocoded using Google Maps. We can now combine the two in any way we want. To begin, we use a geom_point layer to pinpoint every individual inc...
We could tell them a country is not based on lines on a map. A country is the people who live on the soil. America is great because the Americans who build America are great. If we want to make America great again, we need to screen who we allow into the country our grandparents ...
We could tell them a country is not based on lines on a map. A country is the people who live on the soil. America is great because the Americans who build America are great. If we want to make America great again, we need to screen who we allow into the country our grandparents ...
map"><i class="fa fa-check"></i><b>2.2</b> Getting some spatial data to put on a map</a> <ul> <li class="chapter" data-level="2.2.1" data-path="making-maps-in-r.html"><a href="making-maps-in-r.html#find-some-relevant-data-to-show-obtaining-data-on-...
I have no clue what he means and there’s not even a map of Athens with its various neighborhoods in the book. And the heat!! Temperatures in Athens in the summer seem horrible and I read a recent article about the city in Le Monde describing the heat and…the traffic jams. If it ...
Location of Newgate Prison, New York (NYPL Map Division – http://nyplmaps.tumblr.com) Newgate Prison was one of the earliest penitentiaries in the United States. It was located on what is now 10th St. and Washington St. in New York City, with Charles St. and Christopher St. ...