Map Sex Offenders -- a neat use for the Google Maps API.
While looking at the latest in LJD, I followed a link to a true crime blog, The Dark Side (which Ann Rule plugged in her blog!) and found an interesting site I hadn't seen before: Map Sex Offenders.
It uses the Google Maps API, which shows results significantly faster than the map-based search in the Texas Department of Public Safety Records Database, and gave exactly the information I was expecting for the registered sex offender in my neighborhood. I also found a registered sex offender convicted for sexual assault on a child ten years ago that lives a half-mile closer to the elementary school than we do.
*files mental notes*
Carry on.
It uses the Google Maps API, which shows results significantly faster than the map-based search in the Texas Department of Public Safety Records Database, and gave exactly the information I was expecting for the registered sex offender in my neighborhood. I also found a registered sex offender convicted for sexual assault on a child ten years ago that lives a half-mile closer to the elementary school than we do.
*files mental notes*
Carry on.