I've contacted the author of this [NYC homicide map](http://projects.nytimes.com/crime/homicides/map) from the NY Times several times to see if he could send me a spreadsheet of information the data is based off of, but I have not had any response (for a very long time). 

Is there anyway I could scrap the data from the google map directly? I downloaded the swf file and converted to xml, but even within there I can not tell where the information is I want. [Here is the zipped up file of the converted xml](http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3385251/HomicidesGraphic.zip). 

I'm hopeing someone with more knowledge of online mapping can quickly tell me if this possible or not (or where I should be looking in the xml file).