Thieves Don't Similar Hills

There is a theory that San Francisco criminals don't similar hills. You mightiness survive able to exam this hypothesis amongst Mapbox's novel Surface API.

The Surface API includes acme information then that you lot tin move the API to discovery out the acme of points on a map or to practise an acme nautical chart of a walking or cycling route. However the Surface API is to a greater extent than than simply an acme service. It tin every bit good survive used to question whatever information sources of your own, whether that survive information of belongings prices, temperature, precipitation, dissonance flat or another geographical data.

The Mapbox spider web log has included a twain of event maps which move the Surface API. One of these is a Temperature in addition to Elevation map, which allows you lot to compare average temperatures amongst acme along a path.

The 2nd map is a San Francisco Bicycle Theft Rate Density map. This map allows you lot to depict a wheel road on the map in addition to persuasion an acme nautical chart of the route. If you lot mouse-over the acme nautical chart you lot tin every bit good run across the release of reported wheel thefts along the route. If you lot desire you lot could move the map to banking concern stand upwards for if to a greater extent than wheel thefts accept house at lower elevations than at higher elevations.

At the minute the Mapbox Surface API is inwards somebody Beta but the Mapbox spider web log post service has a asking flat which you lot tin move to asking access to the API.