""It's a rip off 'Find my Friends.' I was able to reverse engineer the SF parking ticket system so I could see close to real time where parking tickets were issued in the city. And I was making a map of where the actual parking cops were as they traverse the city and issue tickets. In theory, you could use that to avoid them and avoid a ticket," said Walz."
""The app went viral. Walz says it got five million views on X and a couple hundred thousand people visited his website. Within four hours, SFMTA pulled the plug on Walz's project. 'They changed their site to so I couldn't scrape the data from their site anymore,' said Walz. SFMTA released this statement saying: 'SFMTA is transparent about our transportation data and will continue to be. But when our staff's safety, and personal information of people who""
A 23-year-old software engineer created an app called "Find My Parking Cops" that mapped parking enforcement activity in San Francisco in near-real time by scraping publicly posted SFMTA data. The app reverse-engineered the parking ticket system to display where tickets were issued and to plot officer movements, intended as a data experiment and a tool to help drivers avoid citations. The project gained rapid public attention with hundreds of thousands of site visits and millions of social media views. The SFMTA changed its site within hours to block scraping and cited staff safety and personal information concerns when stopping access.
Read at ABC7 San Francisco
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