Camera Submissions - a plea for accuracy!

Andy_P

I've just returned from a very hot and sticky trip to the M25 "car park" between J16 and J19/20 and back, specifically to verify some new speed camera submissions.

While I was there, I spotted 2 new Specs cameras, but REJECTED 10 submissions from others. 9 of them were supposed to be Specs cameras, and one was for a set of variable speed Gatsos in an overhead gantry.

Not one of them existed!

Specs installations DO move about quite a lot, but in this case ALL of the actual cameras were still in the positions found in the published PGPWS database, just a few hundred yards away from the new reports, so I don't think new ones can have appeared and then disappeared again before anyone else saw them!

Quite a few reported locations were close to "average speed zone" signs on the roadside or one of the many CCTV cameras covering the entire area.

We love your submissions, keep 'em coming, but please don't just submit stuff vaguely, we need accurate positions to verify. Also, please check your normal database is up to date before sending in new reports.

Thanks Smile

MaFt · Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 11:34 pm Post subject:

...and this isn't just Andy having a moan! we do seem to be getting more and more submissions for cameras that are already in the database - even some that are years old!

the main reason for having the cameras on the submission map is so users can see what we already have in the database. if it is already there PLEASE do not resubmit it - unless something needs changing.

MaFt

Andy_P · Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 5:45 pm Post subject:

Bump!

I just wasted a couple of quid's worth of petrol sitting in blistering heat to go and look at a "Gatso" that was so obviously a CCTV camera on a high pole. there was no way it could ever be a speed camera.

If you're unsure what to report, please check the guideline pictures in our camera-type guide.

We've also had another spate of re-reports of variable speed cameras on motorway gantries, all of which are already shown on the submission map to be DUMMY cameras.
Please check for those on the map here before you fire off a report for a new sighting.

Thanks!
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Daggers · Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 6:08 pm Post subject:

Andy_P · Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 6:17 pm Post subject:

I don't know how CamerAlert works.... (I was going to ask that!)

Is there only an "instant" report button? Or can you save the details, so you can review and refine them later at your leisure, before sending them off? (Hope so!)
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M8TJT · Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 7:35 pm Post subject:

DennisN · Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 7:39 pm Post subject:

I've just offered a prize-winning suggestion to add Dummies into the database to save this problem. Asking people to delay submitting until they get home will surely draw the question about how do they get "first" submission to qualify for lifership.

Edit - PS Is that one on the A40, Andy?
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MaFt · Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 8:54 pm Post subject:

DennisN · Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 9:05 pm Post subject:

Andy_P · Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 10:52 pm Post subject:

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M8TJT · Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 9:47 am Post subject:

I am wondering whether we have been the victim of our own success with Cameralert?
@MaFt. I was only trolling. Not serious Sad

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