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Reporting potholes should be a hidden feature of Strava aggregating bumpy road markings amongst thousand of users. A bit like their global heatmap http://labs.strava.com/heatmap. Combine the two datasets to prioritise improvements.
Can I hook up a spray can to a proximity detector and point it sideways?
To mark all the potholes where I live you'd need a spray attachment hooked up to a tanker.
Now if we could hack this stuff, link it to a distance sensor & tag close passers we maybe onto a winner
I'll gladly use this if provided with a thousand free cans of spray paint.
The bump-recording, multiplied by thousands of users in a city, would provide a useful dataset about where to repair roads first. Having a spraycan on the bike is probably a bit OTT, but I like the idea of holes being marked - ideally with glow-in-the-dark paint - as it can sometimes take the council a while to get round to them!
And then you forget to turn the app' off and get paint all over your doorstep, and the curb and those steps you went down.
Where any of those potholes by UK standards?
Using the official Dr Forster metric for defining "pot hole" or minor surface defect
Every pothole ... speedbump .... kerb ...
...if you don't mind riding about with a can of spray paint on your bike, this is an excellent idea...
You bloody loony.
Excellent - you self incriminate your rather dull graffiti direct to the relevant authorities.
It's chalk-based paint, so it doesn't stick and washes off in the next rain. I may be wrong, but I think in Germany a temporary marking doesn't count as damage. Street artists use these paints extensively. You could only be prosecuted if you break some other law, for example if it confuses other road users by looking like legal road markings (but note that Germany uses very few road markings).
I can second that the Fill that hole app gets things done. This is a terrible idea on a few levels, mostly for the poor person behind pedalling/riding/driving having wet paint sprayed up them or their nice paintwork.
To be honest - I've had success with the CTC's app - Fill that Hole.
But you do have to describe where each pothole is this does it automatically, but does it mean you have to actually ride over the pothole for it to register would be a bit expensive on rims, tyres etc