If a picture is worth a thousand words, then crime and incident mapping is invaluable.

Maps are powerful tools for helping viewers understand their place in the world, and when maps are combined with particular data sets this understanding can become revelatory. The first incidence of crime mapping is thought to be in 1829 when Adriano Balbi and Michel Guerry created maps of France charting the relationship between education levels and violent and property crime. Medical cartography blossomed around roughly the same time. Although there are medical examples dating back to the 1600’s, John Snow’s maps of London charting incidents of cholera in 1854, laid the foundations for modern point-based disease incident mapping. These examples proved that, when incident data is applied to maps, the potential to uncover patterns can save property and even lives.

Since its inception, the evolution of this type of mapping and analysis has continued apace bringing us to today’s Geographic Information Systems (GIS). GIS are incredibly useful tools in the incident management toolkit. You can manipulate and view your incident data in many ways related to where they have occurred. This provides strategic, tactical, and administrative information essential for incident analysis.

TeamMacro TERSM contains strong mapping functionality – giving you control over your incident data with the ability to view and analyse it through interactive dashboards. Heat and cluster maps let you see at a glance where and what your problem areas are, and therefore mobilize quickly to solve them. From a satellite view right down to the street level, incident mapping will help you plan for the future and mitigate risk.