In Memory of ChicagoCrime.org

Adrian Holovaty's influential chicagocrime.org was one of the original map mashups, combining crime data from the Chicago Police Department with Google Maps. At the time Google had not yet released the mapping API, forcing the programmers to reverse-engineer Google's obfuscated JavaScript. Eventually the site helped influence Google to make its API public, with the results that you can see everywhere today, and its slashdotting forced the development of the cache system for Django, the popular open-source web framework in which chicagocrime.org was written. All chicagocrime pages will redirect to the new EveryBlock.com, its successor and a superset. Chicagocrime.org will wind up as part of an exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art, called 'Design and the Elastic Mind'.