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Toronto Mayor Wants Residents To Report Graffiti Via iPhone, AndPay For The Privilege from the good-luck-with-that dept As our Canadian readers surely know, Toronto has a weirdrelationship with its current mayor, Rob Ford. I won't get into allthe details, but basically he's a bit of a clown, elected byoutlying semi-suburban neighbourhoods and roundly hated by mostpeople downtown (except the city press, for whom he is an endlesssource of mockable quotes and photos). Among his many, manycontroversial initiatives as mayor is an anti-graffiti push thathas come under fire for indiscriminately targeting authorizedstreet art alongside actual vandalism (including the removal of onemural that was actually commissioned and paid for by the city itself ). Apparently he's just as clueless about technology as he is aboutart, because as reader abc gum sends in, he's now asking people to report graffiti with an iPhoneapp—which costs money . Taking the city's battle to clean up Toronto digital, Rob Fordvisited a lane way near St. Clair and Lansdowne to unveil a newmobile app that lets citizens report unwanted graffiti instantly.Instead of coughing up for a phone call, smart phone users can nowsnap a picture and whisk it off to 311 for processing. "This is as efficient as it gets," remarked Ford at pressconference earlier today. "This will make it easier than ever toreport graffiti vandalism and help keep the city spotless. .. The app, which costs $1.99 (and is currently only available foriPhone), lets Apple smartphone users send photographs directly tothe city with a request to remove of the offending material. If theproperty owner fails to clean up the tag, the city will - so theysay - step in and bill the owner for the work. Uh-huh. So instead of "coughing up" a phone call to the cityinformation line, Rob Ford is hoping people will cough up two bucks(not even 99 cents?). And not just any people—the iPhonewielding, app downloading demographic that is his biggest enemy andthe least interested in fighting graffiti. Whether it's pitched asa useful service for citizens or a request that they do their civicduty, slapping a price tag on it makes it little more than a joke. Perhaps the most telling thing is that the app is built on theOpen311 API that Toronto (among other cities) uses to provideaccess to city services—and yet nobody else seems to bebothering to try to build a graffiti reporting app. If there was ademand for it, there would be a swarm of developers working on it,and they probably would have beaten the city to the punch. SomehowI doubt that a two-dollar app is going to make people suddenlyrealize they've wanted this all along. .. I am an expert from led-floodlighting.com, while we provides the quality product, such as China High Power LED Drivers , Outdoor LED Flood Light Bulbs, Outdoor LED Flood Light Bulbs,and more.
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