Dummy Cameras: Change of Policy
Date: Monday, September 19 @ 14:22:36 UTC
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For a number of years we have had some cameras, mainly on the M42 and M6, that we have had marked as dummy's. They are empty boxes on the gantry that have not changed (except for one single camera) in about 3 years. We do still, however, receive numerous submissions on a weekly, often daily, basis. To the average database user they can see no difference between these cameras and the thousands of other active cameras across the country. Even companies considering using our data who drove along this stretch felt the database was inaccurate as the cameras were not shown. Neither of these cases are good from a business perspective - new and potential users not familiar with the 'dummy' cameras see this as a flaw in our data and lose some of their confidence in it.
We have thought long and hard about this and have reached the decision that the dummy cameras will be added back in to the main database. We still won't, however, be including cameras that are currently 'under test' such as the StreetSmart camera on Great West Road in Hounslow (which appears to be a traffic monitoring camera anyway); nor will we be adding bird boxes such as the one on Station Road in Lower Heyford, Oxfordshire...
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