While on vacation in Florida last week and at the mercy of Garmin’s GPS app (at least until I sprang for a paper map of Orlando), I mentioned to my beautiful wife that I’d like a GPS app that not only gave you directions but would steer you away from bad neighborhoods in cities you don’t know.
Turns out there is an app for that. And a predictable backlash:
A new app uses crowd-sourced data to identify which neighborhoods can be considered “sketchy” or unsafe, but some people are saying SketchFactor may promote racial discrimination, according to PC Mag.
Dagnabbit. I’m always a bit late to the party. And I don’t quite get Objective-C.
Although, to be honest, my app would rely on police report data, not crowdsourcing.
