Icons / Legend shown on Google Map

RavingDave · Lifetime Member Joined: Oct 14, 2006 Posts: 111

Can anyone tell me where to find a key or legend to the Icons used on the Google Map used on the page to report new cameras.

There is a red light camera I have come across in Guildford which does not appear in the database on my Garmin Nuvi, but when I went to enter a new camera submission I found an icon on the google map where the camera is located. The Icon is a red square with red vertical and horizontal lines across the middle (like a window). What does this icon mean? Why doe it not show on my Garmin when I download the database?

thanks

Andy_P · Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 5:06 pm Post subject:

Try this thread
"The search button is your friend" Wink

Andy_P · Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 5:10 pm Post subject:

.... although no-one ever said what the square red ones were! Rolling Eyes

RavingDave · Lifetime Member Joined: Oct 14, 2006 Posts: 111

OK, thanks I can now see where the description is shown in the status bar.

As you say red square with cross hairs is not shown in the thread that describes the icons.

The google map says that 16634@40 (red square icon) is a redlight - this one does not show up on my Garmin. The other side of the junction on the other carriageway (20784@40) shows a traffic light icon - and this one does show up in Garmin.

Also just further down the road is 22261@40, another redlight, shown as red square+cross hair. This also does not show up on Garmin.

Does red square perhaps mean this camera has been reported, but awaiting verification before being included? I can personally verify 16634 to the tune of 3 points! (pre sat nav I might add)

thanks

Andy_P · Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 6:14 pm Post subject:

MaFt · Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 12:16 pm Post subject:

the red squre is a pending redlight camera. i.e. we are awaiting confirmation for that camera. not sure if it should be showing on the map though, i'll check!

MaFt

RavingDave · Lifetime Member Joined: Oct 14, 2006 Posts: 111

How about including a 'pending confirmation' category as an additional database file. Better safe than sorry?

Andy_P · Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 5:23 pm Post subject:

That's a good idea, mate, but you're not the first! People have been suggesting this for quite a while as a way of speeding up the verification process....

xda · Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 1:59 am Post subject:

Andy, the down side to this is that it would enable the less than honest to post an update to a pending location without actually driving past the location.
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Andy_P · Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 12:38 pm Post subject:

MaFt · Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 2:42 pm Post subject:

Andy_P · Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 3:15 pm Post subject:

I didn't think there was any real competition other than TomTom themselves, and they wouldn't stoop that low would they? Confused

RavingDave · Lifetime Member Joined: Oct 14, 2006 Posts: 111

xda · Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 5:18 pm Post subject:

Andy_P · Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 7:04 pm Post subject:

All the more reason to publish them as "awaiting confirmation" rather than either leaving them off or just bunging them on "in case".

If it is a daft submission then the person who checks that site can say so.

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