gvSIG Crime is the solution offered by the gvSIG Association to organize, analyze and maintain information related to security and crime. A platform adapted to the needs of each organization and territory, that includes several components, an important web part that establishes the necessary computer infrastructure to organize, share and access spatial information, with all types of spatio-temporal analysis tools, support for field tasks, …, and components that are more oriented to advanced analysis such as the desktop Geographic Information System (GIS).
It is precisely in this last part where this crime analysis course is focused, which is intended as an introduction to the use of gvSIG Desktop, an open source GIS software, as fundamental software to optimize the analysis of criminal information.
The course does not intend to make an exhaustive tour of all the gvSIG Desktop tools, and it’s focused on carrying out through practical exercises an invitation to explore the potential of its use in criminology.
The objectives of the course are:
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- Gain a better understanding of geospatial technology applied to crime mapping.
- Perform queries based on attribute and location information to get accurate information.
- Use crime databases to produce customized datasets and density maps, or for hot-spot analysis and other geoprocesses.
- Learning basic programming concepts (scripting) to develop new analysis tools.
- Gain a better understanding of Geostatistics applications for crime analysis.
The course starts with basic modules, in which the student can access the spatial information and the complexity will increase, showing the most advanced possibilities of using gvSIG Desktop in the last modules, through the development of scripts in Python and R.
Here we present the links to the different modules of the course:
- Introduction to gvSIG Desktop: interface, add-ons manager and preferences
- Working with Views and Data
- Navigation and selection tools
- Creating layers
- Data visualization and geoprocessing
- Creating symbol libraries
- Population calculator
- Rossmo Algorithm
- Geoprocessing: Mean and median center
- Study of events by quadrant
- Analysis of events by blocks
- Kernel density
- Space-time analysis: 4D
- Use of Street View from gvSIG
- New scripting tools for data analysis
- Visualization of crime data with R in gvSIG
The material necessary to follow the course and do the exercises shown in each module is:
- gvSIG Desktop, that you can download in portable or installable versions and for Windows, Linux and Mac from here.
- Data. Data downloaded from the open data portal of the city of New York have been used. You can download them from here.
- Development. For the final modules about Python and R you have the scripts available in the following package. You must install it from the gvSIG Desktop Add-ons Manager.
Finally here you have a series of links to complementary material that will allow you to improve your gvSIG Desktop training:
- gvSIG Desktop Manual.
- GIS course applied to municipal management (it contains several video-tutorials that cover a large part of the tools available in gvSIG Desktop …).
- Users mailing list. Where you can send queries about the use of gvSIG Desktop to the gvSIG Community.
- Facebook group. We have created a new Facebook group aimed at students of the course and people interested in the use of GIS in criminology.
- Information about gvSIG Crime.
- For professional support, contact the gvSIG Association: info@gvsig.com
We hope that you like this initiative and that this course will serve to extend the use of gvSIG in the security sector.
[Update] If you want to get the certificate of this course you can see the instructions at this post: https://blog.gvsig.org/2018/05/16/certification-of-the-free-course-about-crime-mapping-gis-for-criminology/
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I am teaching a public safety discipline and geoprocessing to military school and I’m using QGIS, geoda and Google Earth Engine. This class came in good time, because I will pass them to you as another possible software to use.
Thank you for sharing!
I am interested in this course.
You don’t need to register. You only must follow the modules
Estoy interesado en el curso
Hola Ernesto, aquí tienes el curso en castellano: https://blog.gvsig.org/2018/05/07/curso-gratuito-de-mapeo-del-delito-sig-en-criminologia/
y si quieres obtener el certificado aquí tienes la información: https://blog.gvsig.org/2018/05/15/certificacion-curso-gratuito-de-mapeo-del-delito-sig-en-criminologia/
Great! On the other hand it could be fantastic to collaborate with your school. If you’re interested, please contact us.
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You don’t need to register. You only must follow the modules
I am interested in this course. Please how do I register?
You don’t need to register. You only must follow the modules
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Es muy interesante quiero llevar el curso
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I would like to be updated about the course. Thanks
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This is great. I am very much interested as a geospatial analyst
I’m interested,
Hello Dear Alvaro ,
I am Habtamu sewnet from Ethiopia who i am now trying to do practical exercise ;GVSIG for municipalities , but i faced with a problem in loading the layer at the link http://ows.terrestris.de/osm/service?, and when I tried with other web application like geo-server and qgis , the layer get loaded ? can you help me
thank you so much
Hello Habtamu, it’s possible that the service was in maintenance tasks. If it’s not working now we would need more information, that is included in the gvSIG.log file. At this post you can see how to get that file and how to send it to the mailing list: https://blog.gvsig.org/2015/06/17/what-to-do-when-we-get-an-error-in-gvsig/ .
So special I like it
I have done some analysis on crime mapping for the federal police in Nigeria. I like the gvSIG approach adopted to crime mapping and analysis more than the one I used.
I am impressed.
Thumbs up for gvSIG.
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for your opinion about gvSIG! It’s fantastic to see that this course is useful for people around the world
I am in Nigeria. How do I get involved or registered.
Hi Anthony, you don’t have to register at the course. It’s free, through the videotutorials in Youtube.
Hi tutors, do you provide certificate for this short course?
Hi Alie,
yes, you can see the instructions about how to get it here: https://blog.gvsig.org/2018/05/16/certification-of-the-free-course-about-crime-mapping-gis-for-criminology/
I studied masinde university criminology & criminal justice, ineed your program s
Hi Walter, the application is free, and you can download it from http://www.gvsig.com/en/products/gvsig-desktop/downloads
At the course you can see how to install the necessary plugins for concrete tools that are used.
I wish to study this course but am from Kenya 🇰🇪
Hi Kelly, don’t worry about that, the course is online and anyone from any country can follow it. You only have to follow the videos of the different modules. In addition, you can get an optional certificate at the end. Here you have the information: https://blog.gvsig.org/2018/05/16/certification-of-the-free-course-about-crime-mapping-gis-for-criminology/
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Land surveyor in Kenya
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I want to learn from this course
Hi Dasrat. The course is online. You only have to follow the videos of the different modules. In addition, you can get an optional certificate (now it’s free) at the end. Here you have the information: https://blog.gvsig.org/2018/05/16/certification-of-the-free-course-about-crime-mapping-gis-for-criminology/
Hi. I cant seem to find the New York data. It doesn’t download at all. Any other link for the data? Thank you