I submitted before reading..... Still have a few questions??

[Hirvevarra]

Hi. I'm Hirve and a Newbie to this website & forum although I do have a grasp of how things work from other interests, hence only asking as I have not found an answer elsewhere and hope some kind person will assist.

Drove along the A1079 and A63 without being warned of some fixed & mobile sites. As a new member so happy to have used the database for 3 days and be totally impressed, I wanted to give back and share with the community so grabbed the rough Lat & Long from my TTGo, then fine tuned on the Submissions map before sending them in. Then I came to the Forum and disovered this....talk about cart before the horse...D'oh !!!

1. When filling in Submission details, I didn't know what Name was about so left this out. Will you still know it's from me?

2. The heading from my TTGo was my travelling direction so I assumed this would be + or - 180 degrees for camera heading. Gave rough compass description of way detection direction just in case. ( SW, NE, etc.. ). What should Heading record, Travelling or Detection direction ?

3. I reported a Mobile that is currently in the central reservation of major roadworks, but usually sits in a layby furthere down - Reported as Mobile. Should this have been Mobile Temporary as it will probably move in a year when the junction is finally remodelled?

4. Also, it faces either direction. I advised this in Comments. Should I have submitted twice but adjusted Heading info ?

5. Alerted to a mobile site on opposite carriageway so reported the site that detects the lane I was using, as these two sites are for opposing single direction enforcement only. Should I have bothered, as an alert for the other lane was sufficient to warn although camera/POI mark on screen was clearly for other lane?

Annyhoo, now I feel like a total lame duck ahving to ask such seemingly daft questions but I really would like to know for future reference.

Happy Motoring and look forward to any replies ( preferrably helpful, but sarcastic would suffice providing it isn't just gainsaying for the sake of it ).

Hirve.

[PaulB2005]

1. If you were logged in they'll know who you were

2. The database currently doesn't use the directional data

3. The central reservation camera should be reported as a Temporary camera.

4. Submit once - See 2 above.

5. Most GPS systems will alert to cameras on the other carriage way because they don't use the directional data to know when it's on your side of the roads so will will be alerted to cameras regardless of if it's on your side or not.

[7272Andy]

[7272Andy]

I don't know, I get called away for half an hour mid reply (apparently I'm paid to work here) and PaulB jumps in first :D
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[Hirvevarra]

Cheers for the replies. Cleared all that up.

Yep, I meant ID box.
In one of the Stickies I read about manual submission of data and the various styles of data format. In one of these was a Name tag for the Submitter and I confused the two sections. Hard day, I suppose !!

Annyhoo, my apols, but you seemed to guess where I was coming from and were far from scathing so I maight just hang around.

When I have a few mins I have a half dozen new installations to fix & submit. They are not yet online but Press reports suggest next month is D-Day for motorists around here. OOH !! Scary !!

Thanks again for your comments & a big Thank You for the welcome. Nice to know it's friendly on here. I promise to read the instructions on the box first NEXT TIME..............

Off to find out about TTOnes and why the ttsystem file won't load into POI Extended Warnings so I can monkey around with my mates SatNav Alert Sounds now. Tried TTN_POIEW10 f & g. So long as my Go worx....... :D

diolch y fawr
Hirve

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