When Mapping Goes Wrong
Some of the shooting incidents in the police database, while showing addresses in Philadelphia, have incorrect coordinates that mark locations that are hundreds of miles away ...
... at Cinderella’s Castle in the Magic Kingdom Park at Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Fla. On the database that was published on Aug. 9, 2022, 589 Philadelphia shootings — or over 4% of the total since 2015 — were listed with the coordinates of Cinderella’s Castle. The database, which is publicly available, currently has blank cells where coordinates for the shootings were previously incorrectly geographically tagged.
Sources: Philadelphia Police Dept.; Google Earth Studio
John Duchneskie / Staff Artist
When Mapping Goes Wrong
Some of the shooting incidents in the police database, while showing addresses in Philadelphia, have incorrect coordinates that mark locations that are hundreds of miles away ...
... at Cinderella’s Castle in the Magic Kingdom Park at Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Fla. On the database that was published on Aug. 9, 2022, 589 Philadelphia shootings — or over 4% of the total since 2015 — were listed with the coordinates of Cinderella’s Castle. The database, which is publicly available, currently has blank cells where coordinates for the shootings were previously incorrectly geographically tagged.
Sources: Philadelphia Police Dept.; Google Earth Studio
John Duchneskie / Staff Artist