Parking a vehicle in downtown will always remain a tricky affair because of the congestion and many rules that apply to parking in heavily trafficked areas of major cities . Therefore, when a person parks his or her vehicle without knowing in which direction the arrow on the sign post is actually pointing they end up with a parking ticket. As a result of that each year a lot of people loose a good chunk of their earning in paying for these parking tickets which can get quite expensive. So to deal with this situation two entrepreneurs, Calvin Liu and Manohar Kamath, developed an app called Park.IT that will help users find a parking spot where they can safely park their vehicles. In addition to this, the latest app also sends reminders to users when their parking time is up. In short, Park.IT comes in quite handy when it comes to parking a vehicle. The usage of Park.IT is also pretty straight forward as all a user needs to do is to see the map, then tap on the exact location and then simply type in for how long a parking space is required. Talking about their app, co-developer Liu said that he got the idea to develop the app after he got towed in San Francisco. Liu said, “The city changed the sign for the street I was parking on. I went in front of a judge, and he has sympathetic, but I had to pay. So, I asked if there was some way of finding out independently if changes had occurred.”
Later he found out that there was not anything like it because although metropolises like San Francisco do maintain parking regulation records, the information is either available in different formats or scattered between various departments and usually these records are not correct, says Liu. Therefore, Kamath and Liu had to create the maps themselves and they started from San Francisco, downtown L.A and Santa Monica.
Liu says, “When inaccuracy means a cost to users, we prefer to go out and get a clean set of data ourselves and use the city data as comparison.”
The duo has also collected data of New York although it has not been made available yet. Plus they are also looking to collect details of Washington D.C. almost immediately, as according to Liu it will take them 10 days to three weeks to do that. Up till now nearly 3,000 users have subscribed for the service that also tells them about “curbing” meaning “turning in the wheel” that is actually a requirement for parking in hill areas of San Francisco.
Eventually, both Kamath and Liu want Park.IT to get included into GPS systems. “As nice as the app is, we want this in the navigation on the phone or the car. You want to know how much the parking costs, and whether you can park there. You know how it is: You see a spot on the street, and you’re immediately suspicious. ‘Why’s it open? What’s wrong with it?’ If it’s part of the navigation, then you know.”
Source: FastCoExist
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