Inspired by the Spotcrime.com, I tried this little experiment to map some of the crime in Hamburg (Germany). It takes the press releases from the local police as an RSS feed from Presseportale.de, runs them through Yahoo! Pipes using regexps to identify date, location, title, and content (it could have been done more easily in PHP, but whatever), then prints the results into a javascript command that uses JQuery and Google Maps API to display the map. It's complicated and un-optimized, but as a proof-of-concept I like it.
Now, if only the police themselves made the map, or if they made their data publicly available in a live and easy-to-reach way (using Google Fusion Tables, for example)... Nevermind, the Hamburger Abendblatt implemented this one recently: http://www.abendblatt.de/hamburg/polizeimeldungen/
