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And I thought all that talk in City & Regional Planning about “process blah blah blah” was crap. Well, wow, this is the kind of thing that makes the SF rent premium worth it:
“CycleTracks uses your iPhone’s GPS support to record your bicycle trips, display maps of your rides, and help transportation planners make San Francisco a better place to bike. At the end of each trip, data representing your trip purpose, route, and the date and time are sent to the San Francisco County Transportation Authority (all personally identifiable data will be kept confidential*). By using CycleTracks, you’ll be helping San Francisco’s transportation planners better understand the needs of cyclists—and you’ll get to see maps and statistics of your rides.”
James Scott is, at this very moment, shitting himself with Foucauldian angst.
(Does that make this a Foucauldian diuretic? And what will having the phrase “Foucauldian diuretic” mean for my Google results? I guess only time and machine learning can tell.)