Reporting a camera on a bridge

sweepdog · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 14, 2007 Posts: 51

I've spotted 2 new crude looking cameras pop up on a motorway bridge - one for each direction. By crude I mean they look like they are just sitting on poles on top of battery blocks!

Anyway, I go over the bridge and not the motorway, so if I report this as a 70 both directions, I guess the person putting these in the data tags this to the motorway, rather than the approach to the bridge on the A road crossing it. Just curious really!

Andy_P · Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 12:46 pm Post subject:

before you report them as anything, can you give as much information as possible about them (a photo would be great!), so others can have a chance to say what else they might be?.

There are so many cameras appearing that are not speed cameras at all, that the database is in danger of getting swamped by false alarms.

Are they yellow, for a start? Do they look like Gatsos or more like video cameras?

sweepdog · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 14, 2007 Posts: 51

OK. having looked at the pictures of what you do and dont want, they are possibly ANPR's, but an answer about how they are tagged would be nice, as I always warn of ON the route. I guess the camera would be set slightly away from the bridge (if it was a valid camera)

MaFt · Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 1:22 pm Post subject:

if it's on a bridge i mark it as on the carriageway either side of the actual bridge

MaFt

mars.1 · Lifetime Member Joined: Apr 27, 2006 Posts: 133

Does'nt this mislead people into thinking the camera is on the carriageway instead of on the bridge where it's meant to be.

MaFt · Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 4:41 pm Post subject:

but if it's on the bridge then how can you tell whether it's capturing people on the motorway or on the bridge road? also, some units will 'see' it as being on the bridge rather than the motorway and not give a warning.

MaFt

sweepdog · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 14, 2007 Posts: 51

The point of my query was, if I sat on top of the bridge and reported a POI, I assume the person putting it in the database either
a) sees it's been recorded as 70mph, so assumes it's for the mway
b) sees it's on a bridge, and assumes the same
c) or a combo of the above

BTW The said cameras had gone yesterday

GPS_fan · Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 1:22 pm Post subject:

JockTamsonsBairn · Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 1:37 pm Post subject:

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