Open ghost opened 10 years ago
I have a lot of experience with that leaflet plugin.
WhatHood uses it to map the "intensity" of the identity of neighborhoods. example:
http://whathood.in/Philadelphia/Fishtown
The redder it is, the more people agree on the location.
I also heat mapped the number of crimes occurring near Septa regional rail stations:
http://jimrsmiley.github.io/septa-regional-rail-crime-heatmap/
Then for my construction permit heatmap, I switched to neighborhood border shapefiles:
http://constructionpermits.phl.io/
You can also use zip codes, census tracts/districts, if there are Philadelphia fire department zones, you can use them.
From my experience, using the leaflet heatmap plugin can be tricky, especially if there isn't a lot of points near each other.
The idea here is to use geocoding to determine latitude/longitude of incidents, and then make a heatmap to determine what the "hottest" areas are. Probably will be looking at leaflet or google APIs to do the heatmapping. A suggestion given at the meetup is to look at whathood to see how it does the heatmapping.