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Using FOIA Data and Unix to halve major source of parking tickets (2018)

194 点作者 johnmaguire2013超过 4 年前

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mabbo超过 4 年前
There&#x27;s a strange incentive for cities.<p>On the one hand, they could be doing this kind of work themselves to save their citizens, who they theoretically are there to represent, money. On the other hand, these parking tickets are clearly a huge source of money if one bad corner can generate $100,000 per year in tickets (based on a 50% reduction being a $60,000 reduction).<p>Parking tickets aren&#x27;t meant to be an income stream, they&#x27;re meant to be a disincentive program to ensure certain goals are met.<p>Imagine if each major city had a small department consisting of a couple of data engineers, a UX designer, and a sociologist, all working together on programs like preventing parking tickets. I wonder what other avenues such a team could attack to help citizens.
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soared超过 4 年前
This is what strongtowns should be doing, instead of their elon-twitter-style hot take blogging.
wheaties超过 4 年前
I worked with Matt. He&#x27;s awesome. Can&#x27;t say enough.
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macNchz超过 4 年前
Perhaps inspired by this story of a similar nature from 2014: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;iquantny.tumblr.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;87573867759&#x2F;success-how-nyc-open-data-and-reddit-saved-new" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;iquantny.tumblr.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;87573867759&#x2F;success-how-nyc...</a>
saagarjha超过 4 年前
Discussion from when it was written: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17754105" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17754105</a>
ramraj07超过 4 年前
Impressive work! I embarked on a project with a similar problem - can you identify locations in tweets from their messages during hrricanes? People mostly don&#x27;t geotag their tweets but just mention street names in non standard ways. My naive solution was to use full text search on the postgis openstreetmaps dump but if there&#x27;s a more elegant solution (that&#x27;s free and can scale to millions of tweets) I would love to know more!
specialist超过 4 年前
#1<p>IBM&#x27;s contract for CANVAS is $180m. How?! Why?! Why is this more than a FileMakerPro app and a staff of minions? I know, I know. Cliche about programmers trivializing complex problems...<p>But bog standard govt systems like this really demonstrate the need for citizen owned software.<p>#2<p>Chicago issues ~2.5m tickets per year. Let&#x27;s say $250m of revenue. Chicago&#x27;s yearly budget is almost $4b. But $250m ain&#x27;t nothing.
colordrops超过 4 年前
I don&#x27;t know why but I found this to be one of the coolest things I&#x27;ve seen on hacker news in the 8 years I&#x27;ve been on here.
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TwoBit超过 4 年前
Why couldn&#x27;t gps resolve the street name errors automatically?
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mcswell超过 4 年前
Nice post! The spelling errors were interesting--I hope he follows up on that. Also, I wish the blog had a comments sxn.
jojobas超过 4 年前
Councillors HATE him!