Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Crowd-Sourcing Infrastructure Inspection

I read somewhere that our aging bridges and dams are being inspected at a tiny fraction of the rate necessary to keep ahead of disaster.

So, turn basic inspection over to amateurs. Advertise for volunteers. Gather them from the local community. Don't pay them. Have them periodically take pictures of anything that looks off. Have them send these pictures to actual inspectors. Let the actual inspectors respond while things are still fixable.

It would be better than nothing. Nothing is almost what we've got now.

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