New Mapping Unsolved Murders Alongside Fusion Tables

The Vancouver Lord's Day has published an Unsolved Homicides map for the city. The map shows the locations of all 298 unsolved homicides inwards Metro Vancouver as well as the Fraser Valley from 2002 to 2013. You tin filter the unsolved homicides on the map past times drug related as well as non-drug related homicides. You tin also click on whatever of the map markers to acquire to a greater extent than details nearly the private unsolved case.

The map itself was created alongside the Google Maps API as well as Google Fusion Tables. In special it was made using Derek Eder's pop Searchable Map Template. Derek's Searchable Map Template is a free, opened upward origin tool that helps you lot practise a searchable, filterable Google Map from a Fusion Table.

The template tin practise a Google Map pulling inwards information from whatever Fusion Table. It includes a issue of features, including, an address search (with variable radius), geolocation (automatically oculus the map on the user's location), results count (using the Google's Fusion Tables API) as well as the mightiness to easily add together additional search filters (checkboxes, sliders, etc).

Derek Eder's website includes a issue of instance maps created alongside the template. These include Derek's ain maps, mainly centered on Chicago as well as lots of maps created past times others alongside the template.

Jack Dougherty has created unopen to other Fusion Tables mapping library based on the Searchable Map Template. His FusionTable-Map-2-Layers template adds the selection to include at to the lowest degree 2 selectable layers (points as well as polygons) to your map as well as tin display results inwards a sortable list.