Pittsburgh Is 1st City With iPhone App August 17 2009
Ask not what your city can do for you; ask what your iPhone can do for your city. Starting today, Pittsburgh became the first U.S. city with its very own iPhone application, iBurgh (free, iTunes link), which allows Steel City residents to use their devices to snap pictures of civic embarrassments and hazards and upload them directly to municipal public administration.
Snapshots go direct to city council, where they will likely face the usual red tape, but it’s still a step in the right direction. The free app, developed by Carnegie Mellon University professor Priya Narasimhan, is designed to be used by Pittsburgh residents who come across things like potholes, broken traffic lights and other trouble areas to notify those in a position to do something about the problems.
Pretty neat.
I’d love to see something GPS based that would tell you what the heck a particular construction project is all about.
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