The city of Boston’s iPhone app, is available for download today. The email archiving pothole-and-whatnot-reporting app allows residents to send the city service requests, including photos and location information.
Mayor Menino is holding a 2 p.m. press conference to announce the app’s availability with Bill Oates, the city’s CIO; Nigel Jacob, the mayor’s emerging technology adviser; and Dave Mitchell, founder of Nashua, N.H.-based software company Connected Bits, which developed the app.
Last November, Boston’s CIO, Bill Oates, and its GIS manager, Claire Lane, told MHT they’d be expanding the use of GIS beyond snow removal. Today, Universal Hub notes the rollout of the City of Boston GIS Data Hub, which lets users monitor city services:
Hours of fun for data geeks and a potentially useful service to see how your neighborhood is doing (you can overlay wards and city-council districts), and any implications this went online only so the mayor could “wifi” his opponents who’ve been calling for something similar is, of course, completely reprehensible.
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