It was suspected that this style of tampering was due to the restrictions that are baked in the program used by parking officers. Whatever the reason for its existence, the style of serial ticket identifiers, associated with parking staff, most likely calling batches of ticket numbers, means that Walz was able to track their roads by drawing every parking ticket on a map once they are inserted into the system. The car owner can look at the activity of the officers at the present time in a patrol and know whether any of them slowly descended in their neighborhood.
Last year, parking officials issued in San Francisco More than a million tickets Within the city borders, which amounted to more than $ 100 million in fines for car owners. “I don’t actually have a car, but I have many friends who talk about it,” says Walz. Like most costs in San Francisco, these tickets can add up to a speed. For example, forgetting to transport your car through the weekly street – a mistake that made my family more than once – cost you $ 90 at a time.
O shouted, where is the parking policeman?
The direct updates of the site were withdrawn from the city government website and depicted on the Apple map. The “parking policemen” follow the roads control officers, which gives them all unique visual identifiers, as well as the ticket rhythm.
On Tuesday, for example, the site apparently offered his Nubian at approximately 10:30 am and distributes 35 tickets over the next few hours while they were patrolling in a neighborhood in the lower Pacific Heights. The certificates that were primarily recorded for expired numbers, which cost $ 107 per ticket, and the absence of a residential permit, which cost $ 108 per ticket. In total, the fines that this officer rose over a few hours of approximately $ 4,000.
Who distributes most tickets every week? Walz included the leading board on the web site, which occupied the amount in the fines of each officer. While the officers were identified only on the map with a number and their first letters, the cost of cumulative tickets was traced. When WIRED managed from the last time to check the Walz website on Tuesday, The Top Fine Giver has released 157 tickets so far, with more than $ 16,000 as a fee for violations.
Before “searching for my parking policemen”, Walz created another San Francisco. Use this phone, put it in a street corner in the Mission, to determine the songs that people were listening to in public places. Then he loaded live feeding for songs, captured and identified through the Shazam app, on “Bop Spotter” site. I saved a peek at what the residents of the neighborhood were colliding at the time while he was also heading on the abundance of monitoring in the city. He also previously built a site, called “IMG_0001”, to flatten the old YouTube clips uploaded by ordinary people in the first days of the platform. The popular and special special videos stand in a flagrant contradiction with the things that dominate the platform today.
The parking ticket tracker was another side project for Walz. “I have worked in my free time on weekends in the past few weeks to achieve this,” he says.
Although the Walz sites sometimes come with a dose of social comments, this project did not imagine that it indicates a kind of large and sweeping statement about parking tickets or what driving in 2025 means. Instead, it is another introduction in its ammunition from the wonderful web sites that work with unique data sources.
“I am not a parking policeman” I was not “I am not” anti -parking. ” “It is just data that I was able to discover, and I thought it would be great.
And now he went. Apple representatives did not respond to the immediate requests to comment. I contacted Walz after cutting the city data, but it did not pick up.