Posted on 07/06/2009 1:55:39 PM PDT by Gomez
Boston City Hall, a drab concrete monument to 1960s Brutalism run by a self-described urban mechanic who despises voice mail, isn’t exactly known as a hotbed of technological innovation.
But within, a few young, tech-savvy aides are trying to drag municipal government into the age of mobile gadgetry. And they think they’ve hit on something big: a “killer app’’ that marries 21st-century technology with Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s old-school devotion to pothole politics.
City officials will soon debut Boston’s first official iPhone application, which will allow residents to snap photos of neighborhood nuisances - nasty potholes, graffiti-stained walls, blown street lights - and e-mail them to City Hall to be fixed.
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ping
technology-replacing-humans alert.
digital-hell alert.
it's-all-just-bullshit alert.
Adding “App” to the words I’m tired of hearing....Along with “Twitter”......Ughhh
Not a bad idea at all. The photos taken by the iPhone are tagged with GPS data, so the repair crews can go there directly.
They could even give the crews a complementary app that receives the repair orders in the field and calculates an efficient route for the crews to follow as they go around fixing things— although that would increase their efficiency and accountability so dramatically, I’m sure the public employee unions would fight it.
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