"Initial map to share with students on the problem with poop in San Francisco. Poop Map, reports from 07/19 thru 07/20"
If this is similar to http://mochimachine.org/wasteland/ (from 2017) this is a map listing reports made by individual 311 calls. Wasteland map was 2008-2015, this latest map is just one year.
Could be interesting to see how the number of reports change over the years.
I tried clicking around a cluster to see if multiple reports were made for the same incident, and so making it look worse that it appears, but they appeared to have different dates. The date format wasn't human readable though.
I would never have expected such calls creating that much data points, this is crazily detailed. Even for two years this seems like a lot of poop. I mean how many people do call in poop in the first place?
I remember walking through the Tenderloin as the morning hosing shit off building stoops began. On my way, I'd walked past the sole public toilets I'd seen on that street (forget what it was called, ran to Market St, had a big Police station on it), the toilets had a sign stating that they automatically locked at 11pm.
I'm not sure what they were worried would happen in the toilets that wasn't happening on the streets, because people were definitely doing all the things on the pavement, but I felt like it wasn't really helping the shit situation.
I haven't the time to do the math, but I'd hazard a guess this is to do with several factors:
- Density of public toilets.
- Perspective of homeless people as more dangerous/violent in SF compared to NY or London. Resulting in them not being allowed to use coffee-shop, station, library toilets.
- Problem is too large to police in SF thus passed a critical mass where it can't be policied.
What’s the general attitude towards the homeless in SF? Is there a real desire to solve the situation (ie provide facilities for day-to-day needs of the homeless, health care and rehabilitation for anyone who needs it, and a path to getting accommodation), or do people want the police to shoo them from wherever they happen to be every now and then?
[+] [-] thinkingemote|3 years ago|reply
If this is similar to http://mochimachine.org/wasteland/ (from 2017) this is a map listing reports made by individual 311 calls. Wasteland map was 2008-2015, this latest map is just one year.
Could be interesting to see how the number of reports change over the years.
I tried clicking around a cluster to see if multiple reports were made for the same incident, and so making it look worse that it appears, but they appeared to have different dates. The date format wasn't human readable though.
[+] [-] raxxorraxor|3 years ago|reply
[+] [-] EdwardDiego|3 years ago|reply
I'm not sure what they were worried would happen in the toilets that wasn't happening on the streets, because people were definitely doing all the things on the pavement, but I felt like it wasn't really helping the shit situation.
[+] [-] moritonal|3 years ago|reply
- Density of public toilets.
- Perspective of homeless people as more dangerous/violent in SF compared to NY or London. Resulting in them not being allowed to use coffee-shop, station, library toilets.
- Problem is too large to police in SF thus passed a critical mass where it can't be policied.
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