... Estimation (KDE) outperforms other approaches (Chainey et al., 2008a). The growing availability of KDE in popular GIS applications, the perceived accuracy of its hotspot identification, and the aesthetically pleasing and easily understandable output are among the driving forces behind its popularity...

... digital aerial imagery can be used to further enhance an address point file. Given the improved positional accuracy, address point data sets are of great value to local governments, in particular emergency services. Figure 2 shows an example of an address point data file in a GIS environment, super...