Some of Pittsburgh’s brightest technological minds hunkered down in Google’s Larimer offices over the weekend for the first Steel City Codefest, where they had 24 hours to create an app that would take civic data and make it useful to city residents…
Another winning app, Park It, would link with the city’s new Web-enabled parking meters to allow drivers to pay for their parking from their phones, meaning no more frantic, wet-headed trips from the salon to the car to feed the meter while getting a haircut.