False Alarms on Camera Database?

imacken · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 24, 2005 Posts: 26

Don't flame me guys, but I recently travelled to Scotland for a week with my TomTom (and wife!).
I downloaded the most recent database of cameras before I left, and was very surprised at how poor the system was.
I must have got hundreds of warnings on my travels on the M90, A9, A83, A82 etc. etc., but I would say that only a handful were genuine - almost all were false alarms.
Now believe me, I'm not criticising here, I'm just wondering how it could have been so bad up there. I've found it to be pretty good in some other parts of the country.
Iain

Oldboy · Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 11:53 pm Post subject:

Which camera set where you using?

If you were using the Single File, there would have been a large number of potential Mobile Camera Sites in there, most of which would not necessarily have been manned at the time you passed.
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Tumbleweed · Frequent Visitor Joined: Aug 30, 2004 Posts: 315

mossman · Regular Visitor Joined: Dec 21, 2005 Posts: 90

You could also be receiving warnings about cameras not on your route but within the warning distance specified by yourself. These will be nearby on other roads.

imacken · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 24, 2005 Posts: 26

peterc10 · Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 11:41 am Post subject:

Do you have the consolidated file or are your cameras' split into type. If the former those so called false alarms will instead be alarms for MOBILE cameras. Those are places where police mobile cameras have been know to set up. By their very nature most of them will not be manned when you pass by - unless the police really have it in for you. Smile

The answer is simple - doen load the split files and don't install (or set up) the mobile cameras, then you will only get the fixed ones. But then no good complaining when you get caught by the mobile speed trap is it?
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imacken · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 24, 2005 Posts: 26

That sounds like good advice Peter. I'll check which I installed. Usually I use the single file, and don't really have a problem whether around Cornwall where I live or in the South East where I regularly travel to.

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