parkken Android App Answers CAN I PARK HERE? on the Streets of Manhattan Anywhere, Any Time of Day!

NEW YORK, July 11, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- CAN I PARK HERE? is the simple question that New York drivers ask themselves on a daily basis, but as any Manhattan driver knows the answer is never simple. This Summer it just got a little easier. Launching this month, parkken, is an Android app that answers those tough parking questions and tells drivers exactly where and when it is legal to park on the streets of Manhattan. By tapping on its map screen, or filling in any other time and place in the CAN I PARK HERE? query box, the parkken App calculates the current or future legal parking available on that block.

The parkken app is the latest offering from Parallel Spaces Maps, LLC whose previous app was a map of Manhattan that utilized an unusual set of clock symbols and barbed wire to visualize a block's parking rules. While those symbols depicted parking rules in a novel way, they were, at first glance, a little daunting.  The parkken app takes the next, more convenient step and translates those symbols to answer specific parking queries for any block in Manhattan.

The app is self-explanatory. By pressing on the map screen, you launch the CAN I PARK HERE query box. The time and place are automatically filled in. You can hit "Search" or, if you prefer, fill in any other time and place and the App calculates the legal parking available on that block for that time you requested. If legal parking is not immediately available, the app responds with the soonest time free or metered parking will be allowed. CAN I PARK HERE? responses extend to include that time legal parking will no longer be allowed or if the free legal parking will change to metered parking.

The map view motif of clocks and barbed wire offer additional parking details for those with the gumption to explore its symbols. Those efforts can pay off as once you are accustomed to reading them, they can paint in broad strokes the parking rules for a whole neighborhood.

Unavoidably, there will be times when you have to park immediately or can't seem to find a space anywhere. If you do decide to park in a garage or lot, a dollar bill shaped button on the lower left of the screen turns ON or OFF the locations and contact information of the off-street parking facilities in your area.

If you are in need of off street parking tap the button to turn on the interactive garage and lot locations symbols. A brief tap on any dollar-bill shaped garage symbol gives that facilities address and telephone number. Future updates may also include coupons to help save on garage and lot parking expenses.

Tom Hibbard of Parallel Spaces Maps who designed the app, says "This began as a personal need and then a personal obsession for an easy to understand, condensed view of parking rules in Manhattan. It has become a tool everyone can use."

So far, the app only works for non commercial vehicles, but Mr. Hibbard has offered to make a commercial vehicle version if there is demand for it.  Other features of the app are an address Search function, a Favorites bookmark function for neighborhoods where you go often, and a GPS locator button.

There is also an iPhone version.

For further information, contact:

Thomas Hibbard, President, Parallel Spaces Maps, LLC.
Office: (888) 775-7353; Cell: (718) 812-5569
http://www.parkken.com 

SOURCE Parallel Spaces Maps, LLC

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