Lost Cameras

cbenford · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 08, 2006 Posts: 1

Has anybody else noticed that cameras get lost between database updates. There is a camera on the A4010 in High Wycombe at 51.62116 lat and -0.78436 long which dissapeared from the TomTom OV2 files a couple of months ago. It is physically still there (I drive past it daily) and is shown on the Pocket GPS map on this site if you zoom in. It is a bit worrying that we pay £20 for the database if it is not maintained corectly and accurate in terms of displaying all permanent cameras.

lupos0_1 · Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:20 pm Post subject:

Welcome, and thanks for the info, I'm sure that the people here will look into this.

mikealder · Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:00 pm Post subject:

The easy way to get a discrepancy looked into such as this, is to post the query/ alteration on the submission page which you can find HERE This way ensures the data gets to where it will be looked into, a post within the forum is likely to be missed - Thanks Mike

MikeB · Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:01 pm Post subject:

The camera was reported as being removed by 3 different users. We have since had a single report of a camer in the area. I have re-instated the original this will be in the next release of the database.
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theripper · Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 2:04 pm Post subject:

Mike
Siince my first post about cameras being removed when they were still there on the A2 there seems to be more and more people reporting the same thing at various places in the country.

My question is Whats happening?

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Tulyar · Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 2:58 pm Post subject:

Maybe cameras are coming in for a 5 year service or something? Anybody know what the service/maintenance regime is on these cameras?

MikeB · Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 6:10 pm Post subject:

Border_Collie · Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 7:53 pm Post subject:

What I find even stranger, is how cbenford posts have reverted to 1. Confused

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Paul80 · Regular Visitor Joined: Aug 25, 2005 Posts: 246

I noticed this the other day

I was driving down the A406 Between Barking and Ilford (North Circular Road) and noticed that 3 Cameras that were still there had been removed from the DataBase.

pete318 · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 27, 2006 Posts: 29

Andy_P · Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 5:44 pm Post subject:

Let's hope you've got "favoured submitter" status Paul!

Andy_P · Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 5:45 pm Post subject:

Or Pete, even... Embarassed

pete318 · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 27, 2006 Posts: 29

pete318 · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 27, 2006 Posts: 29

And with regards to these two cameras I've re-submitted (well I did a change on the camera ID, hope that's the right route). They clearly haven't moved in a long time. I used google earth to get their position relative to surrounding roads (the co-ords on google earth are way out :P) and found the missing cameras on the DB (well you know in the DB but 'removed'). So they've not actually moved for a while if they're in the same spot as they were when the google earth pics were taken.

MikeB · Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 9:37 pm Post subject:

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