News

San Francisco Trials ‘Snapcrap’ App To Help Clean Up Streets

San Francisco Introduces ‘Snapcrap’ App To Help Clean Up Streets

It’s rather a sad sight when you walk down your street to find more than a few ‘presents’ on the pavement. While you often hope that these are from dogs, you are on occasion left to wonder if one of your neighbours has a pet elephant. With dog ownership rather high in California’s San Francisco, this can be quite a major problem.

With the widespread use of smartphones and GPS technology though, a new app has been released to try and help the local authorities keep this under control!

What Does It Do?

With the installation of the app, users are able to send photographs directly to the local authorities street cleaners. The picture provides not only an image but also GPS tracking. The latter of which can clearly be used to help the ‘mess’ be cleaned up a lot faster than usual. In a report via Metro the creator of the app, Sean Miller, said that having recently moved to the city, he noticed ‘poop’ was a major problem: ‘Pretty much everyone who lives here is pretty well accustomed to seeing this stuff when you’re walking down the street in every neighbourhood.’

Not A Crap Idea!

In fairness, while this all might sound a bit weird, I think it’s a fantastic idea! Not only does it help get these ‘offending articles’ off the street faster, but it also helps highlight just what a significant issue this can be. Forgive me, however, if I’m a little sceptical if this will be rolled out in the UK. Someone I can’t see our local councils going for it!

At the very least though, in my opinion, Snapcrap is definitely not a sh*t idea! Hang on…

What do you think? Impressed with the idea? Would you like to see this introduced where you live? – Let us know in the comments!

Mike Sanders

Disqus Comments Loading...

Recent Posts

Elgato Premium 1080p HD Facecam

Studio quality f/2.4 24 mm* all-glass Elgato Prime Lens Sony® STARVIS™ Sensor optimized for indoor…

15 hours ago

Cryorig R5 Performance CPU Cooler with 140mm – Black / White

The large tower cooler relies on two 140 mm fans, six 6 mm heat pipes…

15 hours ago

Cryorig Crona S ARGB 120mm PWM Triple Fan Pack with Controller

An Alternative to Convention - With the Low-key black back frame, Crona S features the…

15 hours ago

Asetek SimSports Pagani Huayra R Sim Racing Pedals

Expand your setup with real Pagani genes - With the Asetek SimSports Pagani Huayra R…

15 hours ago

Fnatic Bolt Wireless RGB Optical Gaming Mouse 

Wireless gaming mouse with lightning bolts on scroll wheel Three connectivity modes: 2.4GHz wireless, Bluetooth…

15 hours ago

Philips Evnia 42″ 42M2N8900 3840×2160 OLED 138Hz 0.1ms A-Sync HDR Widescreen Gaming Monitor

Built for fast action Low input lag reduces time delay between devices to monitor SmartImage…

15 hours ago