CPL8 - Directional Safety Camera Warnings

[nonno]

Hi, can someone confirm or otherwise whether CPL8 (WM version) supports directional safety camera warnings like NNG iGO8.3. If so, is the format the same as iGO8.3 ie. X,Y,TYPE,SPEED,DIRTYPE,DIRECTION. There is no ALK support for Australian safety cameras, so I've tried editing my safetycam file to include the directional info, but it doesn't work. Can someone enlighten me please. Thanks N

[MaFt]

it uses a different format. if you subscribe to our database you will be able to get the australia database in the correct format.

MaFt

[FrequentFlyer]

[nonno]

Thanks for the reply FF. No disrespect to PGPSW either, but its readily apparent from the submissions map that the AU database is nowhere near up to date (it would be unreasonable to expect that it would be). There are a couple of AU sites that provide regular updates of speed camera information (at no cost I might add) however, none are including the speed and direction information. I see this as a cooperative service rather than a fee for service type, especially since most of the information is freely available anyway. I just thought that some cooperative might just give me some pointers on how to update the files to include this extra information. I didn't think I was asking for something for nothing.

[M8TJT]

If you take time out to report some missing AU cams and add directional data to existing ones, you will not only improve the quality of our AU database but will probably be up for a lifetime free subscription.

[FrequentFlyer]

I'm not sure why PGPSW would not want to try and 'do a deal' with other such similar organisations in far away places, and offer each others databases. It would be easy to add a rider..'no guarantees etc.' How else are you ever going to be able to offer a reasonable, and up to date system which we would all like to rely upon to some degree.....probably better not to offer Australia, as an example, at all at present.

[MaFt]

FrequentFlyer: if we don't offer any database at all then how do we get a userbase to get the new cameras logged?

'doing a deal' DOES sound like a good solution and we have approached different sites without much coming from them. most reject it as we a a commercial service and they won;t give their data to us for us to charge for it.

the uk database started in the same way - basically we're just playing catchup with the non-uk countries. this is why we offer a free lifetime subscription to ANYONE who submits a single camera that gets confirmed/verified. this offer is for anyone whether they have a subscription or not. so if someone submits a handful of australian cameras which get confirmed then they get free access to the database for life - at no cost whatsoever.

MaFt

[MaFt]

[FrequentFlyer]

[MaFt]

[PhilB]

Just to get back to the subject of this thread which is directional cameras - has anyone else with the WM version running on a PDA seen warnings but no camera icons? I've just done a short trip down the M6 J18 to J16 then along the A500 to Stoke and there were a couple of instances where the warning came up but no icon another location that comes to mind is on the M5 south (in fact it's in both directitons) there's a mobile site on the bridge just before Frankley Services and I see the warning but no icon. Think I may experiment by taking the directional info out.

Cheers
Phil

[Wiggo]

Phil,

I'm pretty sure what you're describing is a 'feature' of CoPilot. If you look at the 2D view, I can pretty much guarantee they'll all show, but in 3D they are somewhat more variable...

[BaggieBoy]

I have this too, only since the latest CP8 update (or perhaps the one before). Travelling along the A31 (Hogsback) there are several mobile sites, some show icons, some don't.

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