PUBLIC SAFETY
Crime Watch
Hyper-local incident map — property, violent, vehicle, 911 calls, shot sensor.
About
Crime Watch shows nearby incidents with toggleable layers (property, violent, vehicle, missing, 911 calls, shot sensor) on top of free city open data. Now live on the Safe Map with a heatmap-to-pin zoom crossfade and severity-tiered clustering. Donations fund city-by-city open-data integrations and the server costs that keep it free for users.
The challenge
City open-data feeds are wildly inconsistent in schema, license, and refresh cadence. Normalizing into one usable API across jurisdictions is the heavy lift.
Capital
Self-funded scaffolding by Safe Planet Tech; community donations from here.
Milestones
Version 0.1 — Scaffolding
May 2026
iOS shell, GPS, MapKit, layer + time filters with mocked incidents.
Version 1.0 — Live data + heatmap + clustering
May 2026
Real city open data ingested via the API. Heatmap-to-pin zoom crossfade, severity clustering at city zoom, time-range filter, AMBER + FBI Most Wanted overlays.
