By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:01:23 +0000

Sorry, this map’s awful. Where to begin. The pins are stuck at a general point in each borough, not where each murder occured. There’s one pin per borough, not one pin per murder, so absolutely no sense of exactly where the crimes occured and how frequently they occured in some areas – key information for anyone who has even a vague connection to London. Some boroughs where no murders occured still get a pin (saying ’0 murders’). There’s no additional information linked to the map – details of the murders, victims, police action or anything else. In short this adds just about nothing to the sum total of my knowledge about crime in London.
The Telegraph gets a point or two for trying but talk about a completely missed opportunity. The MEN map does a much better job of showing the story.

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By: Mike