New York City is geotagging crosswalks to speed up snow removal

As snow piled up in front of bus stops and fire hydrants during New York City’s second winter storm of the year, city workers have tried to move fast to remove it before snow hardened into ice. A new internal tool makes that job easier to track.

The city’s Department of Sanitation (DSNY) now tags infrastructure that’s been plowed in a mobile mapping tool that employees can update on the go.

“We have started the work of geotagging every single bus shelter and crosswalk,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Monday...