http://www.govtech.net/magazine/channel_story.php?channel=19&id=96477
Blake Harris
"Chicagocrime.org was launched in May by 24-year-old Chicago resident Adrian Holovaty, because, as he put it, it was an interesting technical challenge and a chance to help the community. Despite lacking a GIS background, he built chicagocrime.org from scratch to take publicly available data from the Chicago Police Department's official Citizen Information Collection for Automated Mapping (ICAM) Web site and integrate that data with Google maps. It shows detailed hour-by-hour lists of all crime reports in a public service twist on what some have started to describe as a "Google hack" -- creatively harnessing Google's powerful tools to enrich specialized Web sites."
