Google maps shows location of San Bruno shooting

Folks, the number of shooting crimes (including school shootings) in the United States is going down. I know times like this are the worst times to mention this fact, but it&#x27;s true [0].<p>The media frenzy makes this look like some kind of out-of-control epidemic, but that&#x27;s just not the case.<p>This does not mean we should do nothing about them...any shooting is an event that should not happen. But it&#x27;s important to realize this fact because too many people are approaching the topic emotionally rather than rationally and proposing extreme reactions to trends that simply aren&#x27;t as extreme as they perceive them to be.<p>If you disagree, ask yourself why there are so many cases of shootings in the news all of a sudden. While some recent shootings have indeed been tail-event massacres (i.e., unusually major), many have been events that would otherwise not have attracted much attention (that psycho teacher who shot himself in a closet a few weeks ago comes to mind...why the heck was that on national news?).<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mises.org&#x2F;wire&#x2F;there-are-fewer-school-shootings-now-during-1990s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mises.org&#x2F;wire&#x2F;there-are-fewer-school-shootings-now-...</a>

What a damning indictment of our culture that this is a feature.

Given that suicidal shooters often crave attention, this is the wrong signal to send.

Not really. This is just GPS data for Google&#x27;s SOS alerts, which could be any kind of disaster.

Note that this feature isn&#x27;t just for active shooters -- it&#x27;s for emergencies and crises in general [1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;sosalerts" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;sosalerts</a>

large pot holes and bad railroad crossings would be nice too... should be easy to automatically detect them using all the sensors in the phones crossing them

The where&#x27;s Waldo April fool&#x27;s joke makes it a little surreal: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;DoQEl" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;DoQEl</a><p>(Pardon the phone screenshot)

I thought this was an onion article.

I&#x27;m working with a team to create a consensus-based distributed alert system for emergencies [1], and as horrible as shootings are (having personally been stuck in the middle of mass panic due to a gun threat I can say it&#x27;s insanely frightening), providing spatial and statistical tools to display, model, and alert dangerous events like shootings will be critical in helping reduce response times and increase assistance to victims, as well as figure out commonalities between events. It&#x27;s interesting to see Google try to tackle that problem through augmenting emergencies over Google maps.<p>1: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;proximityapp.xyz" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;proximityapp.xyz</a>

The phrasing of this title is far too flip for a tragedy, especially one this fresh.

Wondering if the dot is placed as the center of gravity of the building , or it is the actual room when you zoom in.<p>Also I wonder why some of the rooms are given names on the map such as &quot;space invader&quot; and &quot;residence evil&quot; but not the other ones.