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I just read a tweet talking about how awesome some app called CitySourced was, so of course I had to take a look at what this great app was. I went to the app’s website and started reading and I quickly realized that this app had some great potential.

CitySourced is basically an app for the normal citizen in every american city* who wants to help the local government/city council with problems around the city. This sounds really great and the way CitySourced executes this idea of citizen reporting is just brilliant. The easiest way to understand this app is to see it or understand how it works for the person wanting to report something.

So let’s say you are driving down a road in San Jose, CA and suddenly you see a pothole in the middle of the road so you park your car at the side of the road goes out and with CitySourced snaps a photo of the pothole. Then the apps reads your GPS coordinates and sends it to the city council of the city you are in. At the city council they have a program running on a computer that sees all of these reporting tick in and they can then review them and fix them. The developers are planning on implement some features requested by Kevin Rose at TechCrunch50, some of these features are:

• Be able to subscribe to your own neighborhood.
• See events close to you, that you can take action on right now.
• Implement a Digg like system where you can vote up reports to give them higher priorities.

Besides these new features they are also planning to implement the app with other data sources and for the city council to gather all this real time data at a central point.

Take a look at this video fra TechCrunch50 with the company presenting the application:

I think this is a really great application for the iPhone and they are developing an app for the Palm Pre with Android support coming soon. This really should be in every city around the world, just think about all the problems we meet every single day these would be easier to fix.

Website: CitySourced.com

Twitter: @CitySourced

*I hope this expands to the rest of the world soon.

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