For a magnificent morning, a San Francisco website rescued from parking tickets
He thought that this absurd pattern appeared to be due to the restrictions on the software used by parking control officers. The reason for being available, the pattern of sequential ticket ID, paired with parking agents who probably claim a large number of tickets, meaning that Walz could track its routes by drawing any parking ticket on the map. A car owner can look at the activity of agents who are currently patrolling and see if each of them slowly descends in their neighborhood.
Last year, parking lots in San Francisco exported more than one million tickets in the city area, more than $ 100 million fines for car owners. “I really don’t have a car, but I have a lot of friends who talk about it,” Walz says. These tickets, like the highest costs in San Francisco, can be added quickly. For example, forgetting your car over the weekly street – the error my family has made more than once – will cost you $ 90 each time.
Baby, where is my parking lot?
The live updates of this website were drawn from the City Government website and visualized on Apple’s map. Finding my parking lot traced the parking control routes and gave them unique visual IDs as well as their tickets.
For example, on Tuesday, the site appears to be an officer at around 10:30 am and deliver 35 tickets in the next few hours while patrolling a neighborhood in the Pacific Highlands. Registered quotes were primarily expired for meters, which cost $ 107 for each ticket, and the lack of a residential license cost $ 108 per ticket. Overall, fines that increased by an officer within a few hours were approximately $ 4,000.
Who will deliver the most tickets each week? Walz puts a leadership board on the website that ranked in the ranking of each officer’s fines. While the agents were only identified by one number and their preparations on the map, their cumulative ticket fee was pursued. When Wired was last able to check the Walz website on Tuesday, the best player had ever issued 157 tickets and earned more than $ 16,000.
Before finding my parking lot, Walz created another San Francisco website. This phone, located in the corner of the street in the Mission, used to specify what songs people were listening to in public. He then uploaded a live feed of songs recorded and identified through the Shazam program on the BOP Spotter website. This little look at what the neighborhood residents were beating at the time, while also tied to the city. He has also previously built a site called IMG_0001 to create old YouTube clips loaded by daily people in the early days of the platform. Those private and private films contradict the things that prevail today on the platform.
The parking ticket track was another side project for Walz. “I have worked in my spare time a few weeks to happen to happen,” he says.
While Walz websites are sometimes accompanied by a dose of social interpretation, he did not imagine the project as extensive and extensive remarks about parking tickets or what he drives in 2025. Instead, this is another login of his interesting websites that use unique data sources.
“I’m not a pro -parking lot”, “says Walz. I am not the” anti -anti -parking lot “police.” This is just the data I could discover, and I thought it was very interesting. “
And now it’s gone. Apple’s representatives did not respond to urgent requests for comment. I arrived at Walz after the city’s data is disconnected, but he didn’t choose.
