[Tagging] types of surveillance cameras

2011-04-11 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi all, I'm starting to map surveillance cameras. Once you start looking for them, you see them everywhere. I am noticing a two major types. There's what I call the dome cameras [1] that live in a dome-shaped enclosure and can probably tilt and swivel to cover a larger area, and there's the

Re: [Tagging] types of surveillance cameras

2011-04-11 Thread Georg Feddern
Hi, Martijn van Exel schrieb: I am noticing a two major types. There's what I call the dome cameras [1] that live in a dome-shaped enclosure and can probably tilt and swivel to cover a larger area, and there's the static ones that have a more traditional camera shape [2] and are usually fixed,

Re: [Tagging] types of surveillance cameras

2011-04-11 Thread Martijn van Exel
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Georg Feddern o...@bavarianmallet.dewrote: Hi, Martijn van Exel schrieb: I am noticing a two major types. There's what I call the dome cameras [1] that live in a dome-shaped enclosure and can probably tilt and swivel to cover a larger area, and there's

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - parking (redux)

2011-04-11 Thread Flaimo
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 01:15, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: I am not sure if it is a good idea to put all these new tags into the amenity namespace. Amenities are general features (e.g. mapnik tries to render all of them) and the proposed tags like parking_space would in a

Re: [Tagging] types of surveillance cameras

2011-04-11 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/4/11 Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org: Maybe it could also be interesting to describe where the camera is mounted (pole / wall / etc.). Recently I found this strange camera in Heidelberg on top of the roof of the church mounted _up_wards (I guess it could be a webcam / weathercam for

Re: [Tagging] types of surveillance cameras

2011-04-11 Thread Martijn van Exel
Wow, that's an interesting one.. surveillance:mounting could be an interesting one with the values you suggest (pole, wall, roof, maybe more). Also surveillance:yaw with a numeric value for degrees (0-360) or a 1-3 letter compass direction (N, NNW, etc), and surveillance:pitch for vertical angle

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - parking (redux)

2011-04-11 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/4/11 Flaimo fla...@gmail.com: On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 01:15, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: I am not sure if it is a good idea to put all these new tags into the amenity namespace. Amenities are general features (e.g. mapnik tries to render all of them) and the

Re: [Tagging] types of surveillance cameras

2011-04-11 Thread john
There are also concealed cameras with small lenses, covering a limited field of view from a fixed angle. This type of camera is likely to be noticed only if you see a reflection from the lens. ---Original Email--- Subject :Re: [Tagging] types of surveillance cameras From