In a new light.

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Admittedly, many of the Google Map mashes don't seem particularly impressive. They're nice to view, but our understanding of what we're looking at doesn't seem to be enhanced, or changed, by the information getting to us via the map. It may be fun to view available apartments by location on a map, but for most of us, a particular address that we find in a newspaper classified gives us a mental picture of the neighborhood, and the map itself doesn't contribute much else (other than concentrating the available apartments geographically).The census bureau information is a different story. When we can receive rather extensive statistics on a particular area on a map, we gain a better understanding. And the Chicago crime maps are absolutely fascinating. Essentially they offer us a highly accessible database right at our fingertips, and anybody who chooses to study the topic of Chicago crime can probably garner a very rich variety of information by choosing different parameters to view.

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