Open moldybeats opened 4 years ago
@AmandaWilsonKC - thought this was going to be a quick task, but I hit a snag. Looks like the 2020 Crime data doesn't include the lat/lon coordinates we need to map crime reports. This was included in previous crime datasets.
I'll include an example of a query from the 2019 data and the 2020 data. You can see how the "location" field in the 2019 query includes latitude and longitude properties while the 2020 data does not:
2019: https://data.kcmo.org/resource/pxaa-ahcm.json?$where=report_no=%27KC19019730%27 2020: https://data.kcmo.org/resource/vsgj-uufz.json?$where=report_no=%27KC20001739%27
This is probably related to the fact that the addresses in the 2020 dataset don't have zip codes.
Is there someone involved in the Open Data KC datasets who could help us get that fixed?
We're going to leave this issue unresolved for the moment. Sounds like KCPD switched to a new platform for public crime data.
The new dataset for 2020 Crime data can be found here:
https://data.kcmo.org/Crime/KCPD-Crime-Data-2020/vsgj-uufz
We need to include this in the crime stats.