Today I decided that I needed to be punished and proceeded to create and geocode 58 parking lots on the Case Wiki.

This will slightly help the campus crime mapper since some reports are given lot numbers as their location. You probably noticed that the crime mapper got a bit fancier. I made icons for a few categories of violations, and took care of multiple incidents being located in one spot. It's also running with FastCGI now so maybe it's faster?

One pattern I've already started to notice is that some places are hotspots for a certain type of violation. Check out the Crimes in 2006 page and you can tell that it's a bad idea to park your bike near Fribley, and to park your car on Carlton Road. (Also on that page, zoom way out for a surprise!)

Well, I'm all geocoded out after hunting down parking lots for the past couple hours. Suggestions for the crime mapper are welcome.

P.S. The code is now on opensource.case.edu and there's a to-do list on the wiki. Feel free to browse around or contribute!

Update: Hey all you geocoders and wiki mappers, check out this awesome resource I just found. It's a build identification glossary with location names, aliases, and addresses. This is exactly what the crime mapper needs...