Our meth map the other day gave the reader some information (i.e., the locations of meth arrests and quarantines), which is cool. But we can do a lot more. I will go over a couple ways to expand on our first map.

First, we might want to make our map a little more user friendly. One way to do this would be to make it so the user can search of a specific address and find incidents near that location. This is probably not very useful in our use case – we know the city -, but for someone moving to Knoxville it could be very useful.

To do this we can use a open-source (read as free) JavaScript library created by Derek Eder. It is ridiculously simple. On that page, he shows you how to do it in seven steps. We won’t go through that, but know it exists and is easy.

Second, we can add more context to the map. For instance, one thing we might want to look at the relationship between poverty and methamphetamine incidences.

How could we go about doing this?