For some reason I cannot find this article from last week on the San Mateo County TImes' web site, so I will retype a couple paragraphs because I think it's cool and could eventually save the city some money.
Phone App may help city with maintenance
by Elizabeth Pfeffer
Hillsborough has been leading other San Mateo County municipalities with its utilization of inexpensive technology to connect citizens and government.
It was the first to get law enforcement dispatches on Twitter and the first to stream police radio through an iPhone application. Now it's trying out a new Web site that lets people report nonemergency issues such as potholes and graffiti simply by taking a picture with their cell phone.
The Hillsborough Public Works Department began a testing phase with SeeClickFix.com earlier this month. It's monitoring a watch area where people can report problems suing a downloadable iPhone application of a regular computer. If someone uploads a photo of a problem using the application, the town will receive an alert with GPS data telling them exactly where it is.
Blackberry and Android version of the application are in the works as well (no pun intended). I like the idea of letting Hillsborough work out the kinks and then bringing some innovative technology to B'game. In the meantime, B'game is listed on the site, but there are no open issues reported yet. Anyone want to put something on there?
i just added one for burlingame and one for hillsborough today.
Posted by: Wayne | January 24, 2010 at 11:11 AM