Northbrook November 2012 Crime Map
Police reports were provided by the Northbrook Police Department and compiled by Patch.
Patch put together a map of crimes last month in Northbrook based on information from the Northbrook Police Department. Scroll over each point on the map for information about the crime and click through on the window that pops up for a more in-depth description.
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Brad Hartman
8:55 am on Monday, December 3, 2012
Not working with mobile.
Ang
10:11 am on Monday, December 3, 2012
Not working on desktop either -- it is a static image, not integrated with any online map.
And integrating it with a map was pointless. The journalism rule of "keep it simple, stupid" was not followed. A map with 11 points on it has to be zoomed, panned, and clicked at least 11 times to see all the entries. Showing the information in a linear fashion, as plain text on a page is best for the users.
Stan Golovchuk
4:38 pm on Monday, December 3, 2012
Thanks for the feedback, Ang. You're absolutely right. I apologize for the technical difficulty and have fixed the map to an interactive one.
Ang
10:03 am on Wednesday, December 5, 2012
It takes 22 clicks (one to open each item and one to close each item) to read the content of this page, how exactly is this useful to your users?
Display the information linearly!