Our analyses using 11,096 pairs of incidences of
residential burglary (each pair consists of the same
incidents geocoded using older and newer address
information, respectively) indicate that the kernel
density estimation with a cell size of 25 25 m and a
bandwidth of 500 m may work quite well in
absorbing the poorer precision of geocoded locations
based on data from older recording system,
whereas in several areas where older recording
system resulted in very poor precision level, the
inaccuracy of incident locations may produce
artifactitious and potentially misleading patterns
in kernel density maps.