It had been drawing close for a while, but at 2:57pm February 22 2010 the 20oth Ideas in Transit innovation article was created.
The article was Nosey Parker, an iPhone app that finds nearby parking spaces.
In response to having a large number of articles, the Ideas in Transit wiki recently underwent more than a little sorting to make it easier to find innovations that interest you. The category section has been reworked so that you can browse by the platform the innovation uses (such as iPhone or OpenStreetMap); which area the innovation innovates in (cycling or car clubs for example); the year the innovation began (such as 2009 to see the new innovations from last year), or even by the country that the innovation is based in (the UK is home to most of the innovations, but other countries like Russia have their share).
Of the 200 innovations a couple deserve a mention here at the 200 mark.
They are:
City-Go-Round – a collection of transport applications, as well as a store of open transport data from the USA and Canada.
MapOSMatic – a site that creates free, indexed maps of a location of your choosing from OpenStreetMap data.
PARK(ing) – a subversive, San Francisco based event that has since gone global where people pay for a parking spot which they transform into a public space.
Ushahidi – a site that creates mash ups of SMS text locations that was used to great effect along with OpenStreetMap in the wake of the Haitian earthquake in early 2010.
The wiki has since had its 201st innovation added, the first of many more to come as new innovations are developed and existing ones are discovered.
