{"id":83,"date":"2005-05-23T18:28:38","date_gmt":"2005-05-23T22:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/23\/google-maps-gets-more-useful\/"},"modified":"2005-05-23T18:30:02","modified_gmt":"2005-05-23T22:30:02","slug":"google-maps-gets-more-useful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/23\/google-maps-gets-more-useful\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps gets more useful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/photos\/chicagocrime.jpg\" width=\"183\" height=\"158\" alt=\"Chicago crime map\" class=\"centered\" \/><br \/>\nGoogle Maps exposes some hooks so that web developers can integrate them into their applications. For instance, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulrademacher.com\/housing\/\">here&#8217;s one<\/a> that displays housing classifieds from Craig&#8217;s List on a map. But Chicagocrime.org&#8217;s takes the cake.  It <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagocrime.org\/map\/\">maps<\/a> where crimes take place in Chicago. You can filter by date, time, district, and type of crime. So if you want to know where to find a prostitute or a drug dealer, or more accurately, where they get arrested, just filter it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Maps exposes some hooks so that web developers can integrate them into their applications. For instance, here&#8217;s one that displays housing classifieds from Craig&#8217;s List on a map. But Chicagocrime.org&#8217;s takes the cake. It maps where crimes take place in Chicago. You can filter by date, time, district, and type of crime. So if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}