Lai~ Me share good lobang that I found surfing the net...
Recently, there's this "Summon Auntie" apps for the iPhone...
Apparently it tracks "fatimah" aka parking warden via information
that other user share...
Here's a report of it from AsiaOne: http://motoring.asiaone.com/Motoring/News/Story/A1Story20110818-294975.html
'Summon Auntie' phone app alerts drivers to parking
attendants
AN iPHONE application which alerts Singaporean drivers of
parking attendants in the vicinity of their vehicles has been
created by a local start-up.
Summon Auntie, affectionately named after the middle-aged women
who patrol public car parks checking on motorists’ parking coupons,
was made publicly available on August 9, coincidentally on
Singapore’s National Day.
The free app works by having users tap on the “Park” function
when they physically park their cars, which logs in their GPS
coordinates to a secured server.
Whenever a parking attendant is spotted within a 200-metre
radius of the location, a notification is sent to the user, which
reads something like “Summon Auntie has been spotted 20.3m away
from your car!”.
The sightings of the parking attendants are dependent on other
users who tap the app’s location-based “Alert” function whenever
they spot a ‘summon auntie’.
Since people started downloading and using the community-driven
app a week ago, more than 5,900 “Alerts” of parking attendants have
been sent in, and over 13,900 notifications sent out to warn
drivers of parking attendants.
Summon Auntie, which was created by web and mobile development
studio replaid, was first thought of in June and took the five-man
team a week to build.
replaid’s Sales and Marketing Manager Ron Wee told AsiaOne that
Summon Auntie was not designed to help motorists to beat the
system.
“Summon Auntie will never be a means to avoid a fine or a summon
which is duly deserved,” the 25-year-old explained.
Rather, the app is an avenue whereby drivers can better manage
the usage of their parking coupons. To illustrate the point, Mr Wee
gave the example of how people sometimes unwittingly extend their
stay in one place, like at a coffeeshop, and neglect their expired
parking coupons.
By receiving a notification from Summon Auntie, they are
reminded to return to their cars to tear more coupons.
He likens it to a modern-day replacement of the ‘kopitiam
(coffee shop) auntie’ who warns her patrons when she spots a
parking attendant.
The replaid team has been more than pleased with the response to
their “pet project”, which is currently the most popular free
lifestyle app on Singapore’s iTunes store.
Mr Wee said the app’s highly localised feel gives it a unique
shine.
Besides the “Park” and “Alert” buttons in the app, there’s also
“Kena” (hit), which lets users share their woes of receiving a
parking ticket on Facebook.