NYC Way

NYC Way is an iPhone application that bundles a variety of local resources useful for residents and tourists alike. It happens to be one of the first mobile apps to combine a wide variety of datasets from NYC.gov (along with various third-party datasets), location awareness and social media. Experience the power of 30+ NYC-related iPhone apps packaged into one.

Based around the theme of making our government more transparent, NYC Way is a first step to help NYC.gov share their rich datasets with the rest of us. It uses various datasets from NYC Data Mine, and many others available via NYC.gov.

NYC Way is location-aware and provides you with information sorted by proximity. The app allows you to update your Facebook status or send out a tweet about any place you discovered or visited.

In an upcoming release, we plan to implement real-time location v/s interest analysis, and hook the app up to a sophisticated Complex Event Processing backend that will correlate user interests and actions with current situation and location to make valuable local recommendations.

NYC Way includes all of the following and more:

• Nearest wifi hotspot locations
• NYC restaurant inspection results
• Major NYC tourist attractions
• NYC street eats (NYC street vendors)
• NYC coffee shops
• NYC gadget stores
• NYC events
• NYC live traffic cams and traffic updates
• NYC subway station locations and alerts
• NYC police stations, wanted criminals, average emergency response times, ERs and more
• Nearest waste disposal sites and waste collection schedules
• Nearest post offices, 24-hour pharmacies, Zipcar locations
• Swine flu vaccination locator, parking ticket search, can I park here
• Volunteer opportunities
• NYC local news including the New York Times, New York Post and WNBC
• NYC recreation information including ice-skating rinks, zoos, aquariums and museums

Submitted by Shariq

URL http://www.nycway.com

Added 15 December 2009

Tags traffic, local, mobile, social networks, transit, media, health, government

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