ChicagoCrime.org to Softly Die
Adrian Holovaty’s pioneering Google Maps mashup ChicagoCrime.org is over. Holovaty announced it on January 31, 2008, ending the run of a great public service mashup. I included ChicagoCrime.org in an article I wrote about Google Maps becoming one of the few real-world instances of the oft-theorized Public Participation GIS (ppGIS). Though Holovaty’s site wasn’t participatory in and of itself, it was cited as an early example of how the increasingly participatory nature of information was being taken advantage of.