Police freeze my PC

triticale

Node wrote: »

i was using a REAL browser :cool:

Crashed for me yesterday with both IE at work and Chrome at home.

Go on then, what's a 'real' browser?

50Twuncle

JJ_Egan wrote: »

The present government will no doubt blame their predecessors

Who have already blamed their predecessors .

jje

So lets blame Sir Robert Walpole - sorted !!

buglawton

It is interesting to see this more open approach (an invitations to 3rd party developers too) on this site. Instantly the flaws are evident: Are there really only 3 or 4 categories of crime altogether? The local newspapers can do better!

[ also it's rather obvious that traffic accident statistics, with fine detail such as involves pedestrians, cyclists, lorries, hit'n'run, etc, should be integrated ]

spud17

Just had a look, I live in a 'nice' quiet cul de sac off a quiet cul de sac, around 30 properties and we had 2 antisocial behaviours in December.

I must be missing something.

My other point was that, nobody has commented on the 6 scripts running on such a simple page.

Obvious if you use NoScript.

davidlizard

It seems to have been working nicely all of this afternoon and evening.

I note the crimes it reports is for just one month - December 2010. Will other months be added in due course, or will it be restricted to just one month?

As pointed out earlier, when the website went live there would be massive interest and loads of hits. It would be a waste of money to design the system to cope with this "once of" level of demand. However, not to design the website such that it does not fall over in a controlled manner when demand goes up is not very professional.

What would be nice is if you could click on the crime, and get a bit more info about it - e.g. was an arrest made, was the arrested convicted - then show other crimes committed by the convicted person. In fact, show where the convicted person lives, and a photo of them - that would really get the data protection/human rights lot wound up!

buglawton

Yes and show an image of the miscreant in the village stocks.

jayme1

spud17 wrote: »

My other point was that, nobody has commented on the 6 scripts running on such a simple page.

Obvious if you use NoScript.

so what is the problem??
if you look at the scripts you will note one is for the website (completely normal), 4 of them are google related (required because it uses google maps) and the other is amazons web platform (also fine)


other than that the site is working fine for me (firefox) , back botton is working too, but who uses the back button these days anyway? most tech people say the back button is pretty useless in modern web pages, you dont use it in gmail why do you need it here.

buglawton

Here's a much better version of the site, that was knocked up by a programmer in 1 day:
http://www.crimesearch.co.uk/

(drag the little red man on the left of the Google map to a place and you are in Street View)

nzseries1

buglawton wrote: »

Here's a much better version of the site, that was knocked up by a programmer in 1 day:
http://www.crimesearch.co.uk/

Interesting!

Although I love the disclaimer:
The data on this website is derived from public sector information, licenced under the Open Government Licence V1.0.

So basically, what that programmer is saying is that he took the current site and changed the way it's displayed, using the default Google maps locality symbols?

buglawton

Actually he used the licensable API whose details are posted on the 'Police' site and made his site.