The city receives roughly 1, requests each month for human and animal waste cleanup, said Rachel Gordon, a spokeswoman for the Public Works Department. This article was updated with information about sanitation efforts in Los Angeles and San Diego. According to the SF Weeklythe map graphically reflects the city's problems with limited, filthy public restrooms and lack of services for the homeless. The icon has a yellow background with a white poop emoji. This comes at a time when San Francisco, like other major metropolitan cities in California — including Los Angeles — are struggling with staggering numbers of homeless individuals in their communities. Wondering what that smell near the Civic Center is, San Francisco resident? Be the first to comment Hide Comments. City officials have taken steps in recent years to combat the persistent problem of human waste on streets, including placing public toilets in 12 neighborhoods and, most recently, forming a team of five public works staffers — dubbed the poop patrol — who soon will begin combing neighborhoods and steam-cleaning areas where waste is found. Google limits third-party access to Gmail and other account data. So while it's amusing for non-residents and disgusting for city center dwellers or tourists, it did make me think:
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‘Snapcrap’ app asks San Francisco residents to take pictures of poop-covered streets. But tech has yet to solve one of the more vexing and messy problems that plagues San Francisco: the city’s poop-covered streets.

“It’s kind of funny, obviously,” Miller said in a phone. The new SnapCrap app is bringing San Francisco's poop problem into to join a "Poop Patrol" to steam clean sidewalks and clean up feces. A map of human waste reports made to in San Francisco! Heat; Search; Report Poop.
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Sorry to do this, but I am tired of people and publications using this .
The SoMa neighborhood where Miller lives has 3, homeless people, the largest such population of any neighborhood in the city, according to the report. While the odd drunk or other soul may have had an emergency, the map is more about folks who don't have a toilet, period.
The idea for Snapcrap was born from this notion. Created by civil-engineer-turned-web-developer Jennifer Wongthe project plots human excrement "incidents" reported by the public to SF Prepared messages that can be sent to the city along with the photo range from succinct to humorous.
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According to the SF Weeklythe map graphically reflects the city's problems with limited, filthy public restrooms and lack of services for the homeless.
Last year, software engineer Jenn Wong even created a poop map of San Francisco, showing the concentration of incidents across the city. Of all the claims made by San Francisco's detractors, possibly the most puzzling to people who actually live in the Bay Area is the “poop map.”.
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City officials have taken steps in recent years to combat the persistent problem of human waste on streets, including placing public toilets in 12 neighborhoods and, most recently, forming a team of five public works staffers — dubbed the poop patrol — who soon will begin combing neighborhoods and steam-cleaning areas where waste is found.
From around the web. The city receives roughly 1, requests each month for human and animal waste cleanup, said Rachel Gordon, a spokeswoman for the Public Works Department. This article was originally published at A homeless man with a grocery cart walks down a street in the Mission District on April 17 in San Francisco.
The city receives roughly 1, requests each month for human and animal waste cleanup, said Rachel Gordon, a spokeswoman for the Public Works Department. The highest concentration of crap is at a downtown alley next to the financial district, right in a high-traffic area frequented by tourists.
Snapcrap had been downloaded nearly 1, times in less than a week following its launch, Miller said.