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mmwain Occasional Visitor
Joined: May 04, 2006 Posts: 5
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Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 10:10 pm Post subject: Bristol and Somerset site IDs |
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All of their active sites this week are listed at http://www.safecam.org.uk/News/ViewNews.aspx?NewsID=105
But when I enter these site numbers in your 'submit by camera ID' it puts them all over the country, not in the right places. Any idea why this might be?
Also, I checked several of their current registered sites and found them not in the DB, including the one that got me (2271), which gives me pretty low confidence in the product.
All their active sites are listed at http://www.safecam.org.uk/CameraSites/camera_sites_map.aspx and every SEU has to maintain such a list - I don't see why you are not making use of this freely available, catalogued and totally reliable information. |
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M8TJT The Other Tired Old Man
Joined: Apr 04, 2006 Posts: 10118 Location: Bexhill, South Sussex, UK
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Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 11:34 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | when I enter these site numbers in your 'submit by camera ID' it puts them all over the country, not in the right places. Any idea why this might be? | Easily explained. They use different site IDs to PGPSW.
Have you submitted the one that caught you? You might just earn a year's free subs (if you are already a subscriber). But I guess you're not as you would not have 'low confidence' in the PGPSW product. |
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GerryC Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Mar 01, 2005 Posts: 1513 Location: West Mids
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2014 12:42 am Post subject: |
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safecam.org.uk wrote: | NB: These maps are meant to be a rough guide to the camera location and may not always be 100% exact. Please also note that mobile sites can be up to 5km in length, and a mobile enforcement vehicle is able to park anywhere within the site where it is safe to do so, and may not necessarily park at the same location every time; therefore, we cannot plot a definitive point of the enforcement location. The icon for mobile sites is plotted at the centre of the site. |
As they say, the positions given do not show where cameras have been used. Other local sites give similar into. The PGPSW database shows the actual location where users have actually seen a camera being used.
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MaFt Pocket GPS Staff
Joined: Aug 31, 2005 Posts: 15155 Location: Bradford, West Yorkshire
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2014 1:35 pm Post subject: |
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As mentioned, the IDs you're entering are Bristol & Somerset's IDs and not the PGPSW IDs.
Search for the location itself and you can see what data we have.
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DennisN Tired Old Man
Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 14893 Location: Keynsham
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2014 8:29 pm Post subject: Re: Bristol and Somerset site IDs |
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mmwain wrote: | All of their active sites this week are listed at http://www.safecam.org.uk/News/ViewNews.aspx?NewsID=105
But when I enter these site numbers in your 'submit by camera ID' it puts them all over the country, not in the right places. Any idea why this might be?
Also, I checked several of their current registered sites and found them not in the DB, including the one that got me (2271), which gives me pretty low confidence in the product.
All their active sites are listed at http://www.safecam.org.uk/CameraSites/camera_sites_map.aspx and every SEU has to maintain such a list - I don't see why you are not making use of this freely available, catalogued and totally reliable information. |
First, we log camera sites which have been reported to us by members and confirmed by our Verifiers.
Second, ALL such partnership lists say that a "site" is an area which can be quite long (e.g. 5Km), so our database will not handle a mile long "site".
Third, it is NOT "totally reliable information" - in the listing you quote, they have, for example site 3161, Midford Road, Bath, which is diverted around by all through traffic (i.e. drivers likely to make trapping a success), due to the landslip at Midford. Site 3213 is due this week too - at Swineford, where there is a total closure of the A431. Frankly, I believe those lists are simply drawn from a programme listing which is not particularly accurate. - "Fred put out this week's list please." and good old Fred pulls off the next listing, without checking such matters as road closures. I wonder how the list looked during the floods?
M8TJT and GerryC have both given very good comments too. _________________ Dennis
If it tastes good - it's fattening.
Two of them are obesiting!! |
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M8TJT The Other Tired Old Man
Joined: Apr 04, 2006 Posts: 10118 Location: Bexhill, South Sussex, UK
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2014 8:38 pm Post subject: Re: Bristol and Somerset site IDs |
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DennisN wrote: | ALL such partnership lists say that a "site" is an area which can be quite long (e.g. 5Km), so our database will not handle a mile long "site". | Sums Dennis? 5km just over three miles, but I suppose if we can't handle 1 mile then we sure as heck can't handle three miles.
As an aside, why on earth do all these council ponces etc. talk about km, when it is British law that road distances must be in miles? |
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DennisN Tired Old Man
Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 14893 Location: Keynsham
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2014 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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You KNOW I'm not good at sums (although if you look, you'll find that Homberg Way, [which is on my shortcut route to Hinkley B], where that camera is said to be located, is closer to a mile long than 5km).
And that's not council ponces, it's Avon and Somerset Constabulary ponces and you may call them that, but I couldn't possibly comment.
And the only reason why 'they' didn't give us km when they decimalised all other weights and measures was because 'they' would have had to give local authority ponces the money to convert all the road signs (bear in mind, motorway marker posts at the side are in kms and ms). _________________ Dennis
If it tastes good - it's fattening.
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PaulB2005 Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jan 04, 2006 Posts: 9323 Location: Durham, UK
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2014 11:00 pm Post subject: |
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mmwain said
Quote: | totally reliable information |
Taken from the website
Quote: | NB: These maps are meant to be a rough guide to the camera location and may not always be 100% exact. Please also note that mobile sites can be up to 5km in length, and a mobile enforcement vehicle is able to park anywhere within the site where it is safe to do so, and may not necessarily park at the same location every time; therefore, we cannot plot a definitive point of the enforcement location. The icon for mobile sites is plotted at the centre of the site. |
Not my definition of "reliable information"... |
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GerryC Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Mar 01, 2005 Posts: 1513 Location: West Mids
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2014 11:33 pm Post subject: Re: Bristol and Somerset site IDs |
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M8TJT wrote: | As an aside, why on earth do all these council ponces etc. talk about km, when it is British law that road distances must be in miles? |
All the design work is in metric. Its only a few measurements that are miles/yards. Even a 200yard advance warning is placed 180m away.
At some point sanity will prevail and road signs will be converted to metric. As long as beer is still in pints I have no problem with it.
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M8TJT The Other Tired Old Man
Joined: Apr 04, 2006 Posts: 10118 Location: Bexhill, South Sussex, UK
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Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2014 12:09 am Post subject: Re: Bristol and Somerset site IDs |
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GerryC wrote: | Even a 200yard advance warning is placed 180m away. | See. Even that's wrong and I'm sure that you johnny foreigner supporters would prefer your pints in litres. |
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MaFt Pocket GPS Staff
Joined: Aug 31, 2005 Posts: 15155 Location: Bradford, West Yorkshire
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Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2014 10:46 am Post subject: Re: Bristol and Somerset site IDs |
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M8TJT wrote: | GerryC wrote: | Even a 200yard advance warning is placed 180m away. | See. Even that's wrong and I'm sure that you johnny foreigner supporters would prefer your pints in litres. |
They'll never take away my extra 68ml!
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