Real-Time Parking Data Now Available Through SFPark App

While it's only available in pilot neighborhoods equipped with the new smart parking meters and sensors at the moment, SFPark started pushing out real-time parking availability data today. A brief look at the Google map mashup the SFMTA put together on SFPark.org shows that now would be a terrible time to look for parking in the Financial District, but if you're headed out to the Mission for lunch, there should be plenty of spaces for you bus-averse, petrol sippers to park your vehicles along Valencia. Ed Lee and other city officials reportedly debuted the corresponding iPhone app [iTunes link] this morning at City Hall, so vehicle owners with iPhones will want to snag that before circling the block in Hayes Valley a third time. Better yet, have the guy riding shotgun handle that. You're distracted as it is. [KRON4]