As you may have noticed by now, moversatlas.com helps you to explore your community by including special features such as schools and community amenities on the MoveMap. One of these special features is the safety feature which can help you to locate any police stations, fire stations or correctional facilities in or around your area. Perhaps when you first begin to think about moving to a new city, you research things like schools in the area or recreational activities for the family. You may look at the median household income and explore the possible job market but maybe you forget to look at things like prisons and correctional facilities which can affect the crime rates of a given area. That’s where the MoveMap comes in handy. Click on the Safety button and then check the box next to correctional facilities and watch the purple boxes appear on your map.

Using the map, you’ll notice that some cities such as Oviedo and Winter Park have no prisons of any kind while cities like Orlando have several.  Although that is quite unfortunate for Orlando, it can be very helpful  to use the map in order to identify exactly what kind of facilities are located in your area and how near or far they may be from your neighborhood or local schools or churches. Looking at Florida you’ll notice it has four male-run and two female-run reception centers where inmates are thoroughly evaluated before being sent off to one of the 48 major institutions. Those institutions do not include work camps, juvenile detention centers and work release centers. The work release centers in Orlando for example are a community program that encourages inmates to reintegrate into society by working for their local community and getting paid during the last few months of their sentence. There are of course certain strict requirements leading to eligibility for these types of programs but they are one way of getting inmates to stand on their own, save up some money and try to once again become a part of society.

I hope this article helped bring your attention to some of the specific uses of the site and how the MoveMap can help you in ways you may not have thought of before. Let me also mention that the safety feature can be used to find the nearest hospitals, fire stations, and police stations which can be very beneficial when you move to a new area in case of an emergency!