• A crowd sourced community based and funded app that will augment the surveillance camera system by allowing Morgantown residents to locate, photograph and GPS tag dog droppings and other refuse or unsafe conditions on public downtown sidewalks,  which will interact via a map with city workers to aid them in remedying the situations. A reward system for photographs initiating the cleanups will be in place, and city worker time and involvement will be trackable and verifiable.

• Civic minded individuals will be moved to clean up the city, especially those who are forced to walk on the Walnut Street Bridge in a narrow confined area. Walkers are frequently students but also residents of all ages. Campaigns using posters and a billboard will bring awareness of the need to clean up and keep clean our city and there should be enough people willing to participate in the efforts.

• The app will allow documentation of unclean and unsafe sidewalk conditions and will show efforts taken to remove the conditions in a graphic manner on maps. A different map will show different types of problems, one map being for dog droppings, one for trash/vomit/needles or other.  These maps will be acted upon by the city cleaning crew as they use them to know where problems exist and to record completion of cleaning them up. A third map for police or official response is also provided to monitor suspicious people or situations. This third function would operate in conjunction with police and 9/11 through another monitoring agent rather than directly.

• This app is most similar to Waze which is a community based driving app that allows users to give feedback on road conditions they encounter, including hazards and police traps. It is anonymous for the users and uses GPS to show the driver's location on a map from which they can navigate a route.

• What makes this app unique is its intended use. There is nothing like it at this time in Morgantown. This app could be part of the cleanup campaign for downtown Morgantown sidewalks and then for keeping them clean. The only problem would be if it worked so well that people then had nothing to photograph and the cleaners would therefore not have maps for things to clean up - but then there would be nothing for them to clean up so that is OK too.

• The interface will be simple, with an opening page that immediately allows a picture to be taken of the object that needs attention. A report button will be hit, and a drop down will appear to select the category of the object in question. Points will immediately show as reward for the object photographed and reported. Another screen will show the score of points and how close the user is to acquiring a "Citizen's Award".  Another screen will show a map of all the locations of objects on the map, and how many times people have reported them, different maps for three or four categories of objects. This is the same map that the cleaners will see. After a cleaner, or police, remedy a reported object, the user will receive more points that will show, points which will also go towards the Citizen Award, and towards an eventual coupon for a free coffee or soft drink or possibly also discounts at downtown stores. This will increase foot traffic downtown and into stores as well.