PGPSW camera database: USA coverage?

cyraxote · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 14, 2009 Posts: 3

Sorry if this has been asked, but I did spend 20 minutes searching for the info before posting.

Just wanted to know how many cameras there are in the database for the Maryland/Virginia/DC area. The US is much larger than the UK, so comparing the numbers, it seems like there aren't that many US data points.

Can anyone comment?

Thanks.

Oldboy · Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 6:55 am Post subject:

I didn't want to sit here counting, so I thought this might give you some idea.

Right Click and Save Image As ... a JPG and you will see it in more detail.

The blue markers are those in the main database. The red are the PMobiles, of which there are only a few.
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dept911 · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 08, 2009 Posts: 3

Montgomery County, Maryland, USA has about 37 Gatso speed cameras and are about to double that amount. Your Gatso database for the Americas is 13! and has been constant for the last month. Now I understand the poblem of verification, but wouldn't it be better if there was some sort of Provisional Gatso Database on reported sightings, then when verified they go into the normal Gatso database. I cannot recommend this to my friends until the database is more reliable.

Thanks

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MaFt · Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 1:38 pm Post subject:

i was under the impression that there weren't many gatso's in the states and they were usually redlight cameras and mobile sites?

how about you and your pals go around and submit your local cameras? non uk firsts are entitled to free lifetime subscriptions regardless of whether you are a current subscriber or not.

MaFt

dept911 · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 08, 2009 Posts: 3

Thanks for your kind attention to this matter.

I seem to find the stoplight camera database rather complete, but a severe shortage of the speed cameras. So far there doesn't seem to be a lot of push to the portable speed cameras in this part of the states.

I have at least two Gatso types in the hopper, submitted about month ago. Not only is this county going crazy with these things (gatso types), the State of Maryland is about to dump loads of them on us..

I had submitted a total of 4 speed cameras, and two of them already was picked up (probably wasn't the first to submit them), two of them remain unverified to date. I am not so much worried about the ones hanging, but I am worried of how many other have been reported that are not in the database, nor in a provisional type database. Its the ones I don't know about, are the ones that get me.

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cyraxote · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 14, 2009 Posts: 3

Do the blue dots represent speed cameras, redlight cameras, or both?

Is submitting a speed camera that caught me a valid submission? Or do I need to have lat/long? How do I submit?

I have the information off the ticket (address, direction [e.g., westbound], speed limit, etc).

Thanks.

MaFt · Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 8:58 am Post subject:

dept911 - are there perhaps any websites that give details of the speed cameras that could go towards verification?

cyraxote if you locate the area on the submission map and fill out the rest of the details we can sort it that way.

MaFt

Oldboy · Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 9:00 am Post subject:

The blue dots represent any camera that is in the Main Database, Gatso, Redlight or Mobile.

The Submission Page will generate the Lat/Lon if you can pinpoint the exact location using the address, and memory, of where the camera was being used.

The Page also has Data Entry Boxes to put the necessary information in.
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dept911 · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 08, 2009 Posts: 3

Here is the link to the Montgomery County, Maryland Speed Cameras

http://connectedcommunities.us/showthread.php?t=22330

Hope this helps.

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MaFt · Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 3:45 pm Post subject:

thanks dept911 - i've used this to confirm the 10 or so pending submissions for that area.

MaFt

cyraxote · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 14, 2009 Posts: 3

OK, I submitted the information, and I also found the camera on the Montgomery County link supplied above.

Thanks.

dept911 · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 08, 2009 Posts: 3

There are apparently some mobile cameras in the Rockville area of Montgomery County, Maryland. I have seen none of them, but this stuff should be added to the database somehow.

http://www.rockvillemd.gov/police/speedcamera-locations.htm

Also a bunch of new ones will be in the Baltimore, Baltimore County, Maryland by October.

http://wjz.com/local/red.light.cameras.2.1076713.html

Stay tuned..

dept911

MaFt

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