The city of Long Beach is asking for residents' help in identifying and inventorying billboards throughout the city. The crowdsourcing project is enlisting help in inventorying the hundreds of billboards installed in the city between 1940s through 1960s, before the city enacted regulations requiring them to be registered, according to the press release.
"We are encouraging the community to use a new feature on the Go Long Beach app to help us locate billboards," Mayor Bob Foster stated. "We want people to be the community’s eyes and, in this case, fingers on their smartphones to help improve our city."
City staff are also tracking the billboards, but the process is time consuming. By crowdsourcing, the city hopes to tap into residents' collective knowledge and people-power, according to the press release.
The result from the community will be integrated into the city's data for a comprehensive record of billboards.
To use the Go Long Beach App to help inventory billboards:
- Tap on "New Issue"
- Select "Billboards – Where are they?"
- Tap on Add Photo and take picture
- Add information on street address or general location of cross streets, if known
- Tap on "Submit"
- The smartphone's GPS will automatically geo-tag the location. To modify the location, move the map with your finger so the crosshairs align with the location of the billboard before submitting.
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