Camera Direction Data

[Sallyann]

The latest Mio GPS units can display camera direction, so that you are not wrongly alerted by a camera on the opposite carriageway. Up to now this only works with the camera data supplied by Mio which is very much out of date compared to the excellent database available here.
If we can give a lead by providing and using the direction data, it must be taken up by the other manufacturers.
I have just completed a modification to the import program that builds a speedcam file for the Mio devices from the PGPSW database. If the directional information can be added to the PGPSW database then the program will make use of it.
I appreciate that the direction data is not available for all the cameras, and is not relevant for many, but if it was added to the file where known this would be a trigger for those of us using it to report other directional cameras for updating.
The program, and the database format required, are described here:
http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=47014

So guys, can you please include the direction data to the single file pocketgps_uk_sc.asc, or to a separate download copy of it?
Thank you!

Sal

[Sallyann]

Mods - any chance of a reply to this please?

Sal

[Andy_P]

I've no specific knowledge, but I'd have thought that very few of the database entries will have this informtion stored at the moment. I know the POICapture software can report it, but the great majority of cameras must have been reported by other means.
It will take a huge effort to re-survey them all (and a huge amount of time too, judging by how long other changes are taking to get through the system these days!).

[Sallyann]

I wouldn't dream if suggesting that all the cameras be re-surveyed. Clearly that's an impossible task.
All I'm asking is that the directions are given for the cameras where they are already known. If that is only a few then it won't be a big job to do, but it will be a start and will encourage us to report directions for the ones that don't have the data.
At the moment, it's a closed loop - no data shown means that we can't use it and can't update it.

Sal

[Darren]

We have a meeting this weekend and I will raise this issue. We have a large amount of cameras now recorded with directional data but what proportion these are of the entire live database I do not know.

However if we can move this on then this would be a great opportunity to test it!
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Darren Griffin

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[Sallyann]

[rronaldson]

Seems a natural progression to include directional information even if only Mio use it at the moment. After all nothing stands still with this kind of technology.
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Reg

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I think it wasn't until PGPSW started to offer the speed limit data that people started submitting the speed data in their droves, and I suspect the same will apply to the heading (which is already an option on the submission page).

If only the Google map could be used to somehow allow the user to use the map data already there to provide the heading.

Actually - what sort of data can be entered into that box - for a motorway like the M4 if I wrote "Eastbound" would that be enough to allow you to work out the exact heading??

[Darren]

[Andy_P]

As mentioned elsewhere, to avoid confusion with rear-facing/forward-facing, can the form be clarified to ask for driving direction (i.e. avoid the word "pointing")?

[Darren]

[darthpaul]

You said "point"! HAHA!

Ahem.

I'll deffo be submitting driving direction info if this gets off the ground..

[Andy_P]

I missed that!

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