GPS Camera warning with audio output

W90BHP · Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 3:58 pm Post subject:

Not exceeding the speed limit is also an option ;)

I find the PocketGPS camera database to be perfectly adequate - I've not spotted many cameras on the road near me (West Yorkshire) that aren't in the database. The main danger is the mobile cameras - likely sites are listed in the database but they can park the damn things pretty much anywhere. West Yorkshire Police now have speed cameras mounted on motorbikes!

Martin
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W90BHP · Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 3:59 pm Post subject:

That should have read "...I've not spotted any cameras..."

No edit function on here... Sad

Martin
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iPAQ 3970 : Navman Sleeve : CoPilot 4 : Somewhere in the loft

LostAtSea · Posted: Sat May 07, 2005 8:27 pm Post subject:

W90BHP · Posted: Sat May 07, 2005 9:11 pm Post subject:

At the risk of sounding like my own Mum, you break the speed limit, (intentionally or accidentally) and the law entirely at your own risk. I also drive for a living and personally wouldn't rely on a camera notification device, no matter how good it was... they do not warn you about Plod in a Panda!

Martin - caught last time by a marked Omega with VASCAR! After that I decided to just slow the hell down... ;)
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TomTom Go 730T : Traffic subscription long expired
Nokia E61 : Nokia GPS : TomTom Navigator 6 : Retired from duty
iPAQ 3970 : Navman Sleeve : CoPilot 4 : Somewhere in the loft

LostAtSea · Posted: Sat May 07, 2005 10:59 pm Post subject:

Quite right.

However, in general, traffic cops have some common sense and so the stupidly low limits (e.g. 30 right at the bottom of a long NSL hill, 40 on a wide dual carriageway) are enforced by camera as a cop simply wouldn't generate enough revenue, only nicking the nutters driving stupidly fast.

Hence a warning device pretty much does the job for me.

voxmagna · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 12, 2005 Posts: 5

I have an idea.

If those of us with Snoopers entering the waypoints for cameras not found, were to email the co-ords from the edit list (there are 99 free slots) would that be sufficient to enhance the pocketgps database for the benefit of us all? Or at least offer some additional info to the editors.

Others not subscribing and uploading might feel they were putting this Snooper feature to some good use. Incidentally, since I don't have mapping software, I also thought it could be useful if you break down to relay your position - store location and read it back over a mobile phone to a breakdown service and delete the entry.

boggie · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 03, 2004 Posts: 20

My wife drives a TVR so we regularly need the help of our breakdown service Rolling Eyes

However over the last 2 years we have had 2 different breakdown companies, when we rang them and said we could give them the exact coordinates of our location they both said they could not work from GPS figures Sad

LostAtSea · Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 9:02 am Post subject:

Not surprised. I rang the RAC and said I had pulled up on the A38, first exit from the roundabout connecting A38 and A4440 as you headed from the M5 Junction 7, 2 miles south of Worcester, 500 yards to the East of the River Severn.

They still said "Where?"

boggie · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 03, 2004 Posts: 20

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