New app gives Goa's potholes a digital address, location pin
Goa’s potholes just got a digital address, complete with a GPS location pin
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Panaji: Goa's potholes just got a digital address, complete with a GPS location pin. Thanks to a unique collaboration initiative by the ActforGoa, a social platform, NineStack a local tech firm and road safety activist Cecille Rodrigues, a new app, PinIt, may have just given Goa's vigilant citizenry a tech upgrade.
The new app helps users thematically identify assets as well as problem areas in local neighbourhoods and flags them for either promotion or trouble shooting.
"It could be used to pin black spots and areas where trash has accumulated and needs to be cleaned up. It could be used to pin important cultural landmarks that we want to preserve and celebrate from within our communities. Currently we have 11 categories outlined in the app," according to founder of Nine Stack Aaron Fernandez.
PinIt allows users to crowdsource data on issues or assets from within their neighbourhood, and engage with residents from across villages in Goa, whether they are pothole-ridden roads to garbage black spots and heritage sites, football grounds, parks, or recyclers in the area.
