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mjax10
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 Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 1:38 am Post subject: submited speed cameras |
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Hi, Over the past few weeks or so i have submitted 3 new speed camera positions [ gatso ] . Although they are now displayed on the database no one has contacted me regarding membership gratuities. 
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RQ
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 5:45 am Post subject: |
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You may not have been the first person to notify PGPSW of the new cameras locations.
Did you get an email from them and if so, what did it say?
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DennisN
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 7:48 am Post subject: Re: submited speed cameras |
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| mjax10 wrote: | Hi, Over the past few weeks or so i have submitted 3 new speed camera positions [ gatso ] . Although they are now displayed on the database no one has contacted me regarding membership gratuities.
How long does this normally take |
As RQ says, you have to get up very early to be the first to report a new camera - there are so many members, probably all working different hours, that there always seems to be someone else who reported it sooner!
If you look at top of the most recent page for new database downloads, it says | Quote: | | We have had a total of 38 verified static cameras added this release submitted by 24 members. All members submitting the first report of these static cameras will be credited with lifetime memberships by 17:00 03 May 07. |
So it looks like the new free lifetime memberships are issued within a couple of days of the new cameras being published in the database.
But please don't give up trying. It is possible to manage it - I have lifetime membership and I still report everything I see - I don't know if I've been the first recently, but we rely on all our reports to help keep the database top of its class. And remember, you can get a free membership for being first to report removal or change of a fixed camera, not just new ones. I sometimes think it might be easier to be first with those - I wonder whether they get as many reports of change to speed limit.
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GPS_fan
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 9:13 am Post subject: |
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I reported a camera where the cement still hadn't set around the base, but it was already listed - that's how quick you have to be!
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Darren
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 9:32 am Post subject: |
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| GPS_fan wrote: | | I reported a camera where the cement still hadn't set around the base, but it was already listed - that's how quick you have to be! |
We get a large number of these reported to us by the install teams. They tell us where and when with the full OS Grid Reference 
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MaFt
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 9:41 am Post subject: |
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free subs are given at the time of the next database release
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GPS_fan
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 11:14 am Post subject: |
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| Darren wrote: | | We get a large number of these reported to us by the install teams. They tell us where and when with the full OS Grid Reference |
...not much hope for the rest of us then, if people have 'inside information'
Who owns up to installing speed cameras though? This must make you less popular than the tax man 
...although I understand the free membership also applies if you're the first to report a camera which has been removed - let's form a removal team
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Darren
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 11:30 am Post subject: |
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| GPS_fan wrote: | | Who owns up to installing speed cameras though? This must make you less popular than the tax man |
I guess it makes them feel better, helps with their conscience!
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Anita
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 12:22 pm Post subject: Re: submited speed cameras |
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I cannot believe how desperate people are to get free life membership and save themselves £2 a month - or £1.5833333333 a month if they pay yearly. Less than a pint, or 10 cigarettes, or half a gallon of petrol.
Surely contributing to the accuracy of the database by verifiying a camera already submitted by someone else is motivation enough to report a new camera? 
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GPS_fan
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 12:53 pm Post subject: Re: submited speed cameras |
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| Anita wrote: | | I cannot believe how desperate people are to get free life membership |
I don't see myself as desperate - just trying to have a little fun with a subject that could be viewed as contentious or pretty dull.
If you can't have a bit of friendly banter with other members along the way, then the forum may, indeed, be factual - but it wouldn't be much fun and membership may well just drop off as a result.
...but we're all entitled to our own view on this
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Anita
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 1:17 pm Post subject: Re: submited speed cameras |
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| GPS_fan wrote: | | I don't see myself as desperate - just trying to have a little fun with a subject that could be viewed as contentious or pretty dull. |
I wasn't getting at you or your light-hearted comments, just the people who say they've submitted a number of new cameras and want to know why they haven't been awarded free membership, often implying that there's something underhand going on.
I'm all for friendly banter! :D
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GPS_fan
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 1:26 pm Post subject: Re: submited speed cameras |
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| Anita wrote: | | I wasn't getting at you or your light-hearted comments |
I wasn't taking it personally
...I also wasn't just aiming my comment at you - this forum isn't a chatroom, but some of these topics need a bit of humour adding.
Sadly, I think there IS an element of truth in what you said about people taking it too seriously
Free membership should be viewed more like the lottery - if you're lucky, you get it....if some fool reports the camera first, you don't - and we shouldn't expect it whenever we report a camera.
GPS is just a tool and the sun will still rise in the morning if it fails
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DennisN
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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Anita and GPS_fan congratulations both. Your posts are the sort of thing I find welcome here. Dull stuff is dull, your stuff isn't.
Oh and by the way Anita, the annual membership fee equates to approximately 5.2054794521 pence a day - could we have a little more accuracy if you please! (That's not for a leap year of course, which is even better value).
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DennisN
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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Or put it another way, 1.2315789474 litres of petrol a month.
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Anita
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I bow to your superior mathematical skills, Dennis. 
After all, judging from your signature, you're far better educated than I am. I only managed five 'O Levels' before leaving school way back in 1959, and then only reached the heady heights of programmer/analyst, while you were obviously a nuclear physicist before changing career to become a white van man. 
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