B’klyn Programmers Are a Big Part of BigApps Contest
By Zach Campbell
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
BROOKLYN — Last fall, the Bloomberg administration began its third-annual app development competition, bringing together close to 100 groups to see who could program the most useful mobile application for New Yorkers. Applications will be judged based on their potential impact on residents and visitors, their creativity and originality, their design and their commercial potential.
To make the programmers’ jobs easier, the city has made available hundreds of public data sets, including restaurant inspection results; the locations of Wi-fi hotspots, public bathrooms, parks, public art; subway entrances; parking ticket records; and even a list of the top 10 buildings for elevator-related citations — the list is exhaustive. Winners will be chosen at the end of next month, partially by a panel of judges and partially by a public vote that will last another two weeks.