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Thursday, September 27, 2007
The Enquirer’s “CinciNavigator” highlights crime
Posted by The Dean of Cincinnati
On the front page of The Enquirer’s web page this morning is a blurb about a new beta program through Cincinnati.com called “CinciNavigator.” It is described as a “mapping feature that lets you track data from your neighborhood: Home prices, business openings, dog licenses and more.” I was surprised, therefore, to see CinciNavigator highlighting neighborhood crime when I followed the link to see what it was about!
Here is a screenshot of the first thing I saw when checking out their new interface:
Photo courtesy of here.
As you can partially see in the screenshot, they say they are proud to present a new way for staying in touch with what’s happening in the neighborhood. Usually, however, when thinking about staying in touch with my neighborhood, or when thinking about new businesses or dog licenses, I’m not wondering about the last time someone committed Grand Theft Auto.
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27 Sep 2007 at 03:22 pm | #
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Another fine piece of work by the fishwRap. We suppose they wish to scare off all development so the city council can give all the stolen property to 3CDC ?
27 Sep 2007 at 03:48 pm | #
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Closer look at the presentation reveals even greater flaws. What there is no good shot from the L&N people bridge ? How about stops along the Queen City tour, Coney Island, Schmidt Field, Riverside Park ? No wonder NKY flourishes. Our only, pathetic, news rag can’t even portray the city in a favorable light.
The Peter Dean tour was more revealing.
The Beacon, once again, takes the lead.
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29 Sep 2007 at 09:05 am | #
Thankfully, Norwood doesn’t seem to be included in this crime feature…yet. When I plugged in our zip code 45212, crimes in Pleasant Ridge, parts of which share our code, showed up, but also Bond Hill, Avondale, Mt. Auburn, Corryville, areas I’m pretty sure don’t share 45212. Where’s the accuracy?
29 Sep 2007 at 01:33 pm | #
This tool seems utterly useless. And it doesn’t seem to work well on Safari or Firefox.
30 Sep 2007 at 05:13 pm | #
how is it highlighting crime for it to be one of six choices of information you can get?
you probably should be aware of crime in your neighborhood and how it will affect you and your family. seems pretty important and a useful too for me
30 Sep 2007 at 05:45 pm | #
How? Because the default setting is to highlight an auto theft in Queensgate. But that is not how the interface is described, as if it is just a crime reporting tool.
Do you know how to read?
01 Oct 2007 at 12:24 pm | #
apparently i am able to read and look at things more in depth then an oxford graduate.
there is one screen shot that shows crime but when you actually click on the tool to use it you have a choice of 7 items. the first one listed is amazing enough “new stories”. almost like the want you to read stories they published about your neighborhood. that seems to me to be more important then what screen shot you see. when you actually use the tool they promote themselves first.
you might not care about crime and keeping in touch with your neighborhood but i will bet most people are. i know i was interested to know that there is an apartment complex in pleasant ridge that creates an unusual large amount of police calls. this is helpful information from a helpful tool. sorry you cant get past your blind bias to appreciate its usefulness.