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Fri, 09/17/2010 - 21:46 — Aren Cambre

I geocoded my Dallas citation data and plotted it on a map. It appears Microsoft MapPoint 2010 is making some errors, putting some Dallas citations far outside Dallas. This is weird because MapPoint accepts the name of the city in its own field during geocoding.

Also, poking around the data more, I've got to move to some other program to do visualizations. Microsoft MapPoint does a bad job at visualizations with more than 2 dimensions. In my case, I need to have some measure of intensity. For example, if 100 traffic citations were issued at one spot, I need for that to look much different than another spot with only 1 citation. MapPoint can't do this in a useful way.

Texas map that has lots of pushpins outside of expected areas

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