
At the tail end of last term we entered TaxiCity into the FTW Competition. A few weeks ago the announced the finalist and to our surprise TaxiCity was nominated in two categories! Now all the votes have been tallied and we are walking away with the award for best student application, which really is awesome. The winner of best open data application and the overall competition, Find-A-Home, is far more complete in execution than our project., though I feel our concept is a more unique use of open data. TaxiCity really has garnered a lot more interest than I think any of us expected when the project began, and I hope it continues in the future.