Re: [talk-au] Oz tagging of speed cameras

2022-08-15 Thread Andrew Davidson
On 15/8/22 08:40, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: I did wonder about that, looking at the two boxes on poles that are visible? Here at least, that arrangement means they are red light cameras only, combined red light & speed have a much larger camera box, & plain speed cameras are a single small

Re: [talk-au] Oz tagging of speed cameras

2022-08-14 Thread stevea
Graeme: You are possibly / likely correct about assumptions regarding size (I'm not local, I haven't seen the devices, I don't know of any standardisation / competition-in-the-traffic-camera-marketplace you have in Oz). However, also, you might 'not' be correct about assumptions regarding

Re: [talk-au] Oz tagging of speed cameras

2022-08-14 Thread Graeme Fitzpatrick
On Sun, 14 Aug 2022 at 19:46, Andrew Davidson wrote: > > The other odd thing is that most "speed cameras" are also red light > cameras but they haven't been mapped that way. > I did wonder about that, looking at the two boxes on poles that are visible? Here at least, that arrangement means they

Re: [talk-au] Oz tagging of speed cameras

2022-08-14 Thread Andrew Davidson
On 14/8/22 07:57, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: Thanks! But by that wiki, they should be mapped beside the camera location, not at the traffic lights? A quick look round shows that the ones in SA have been mapped at the stop line. In VIC and NSW they seem to have been mostly mapped where the

Re: [talk-au] Oz tagging of speed cameras

2022-08-13 Thread Graeme Fitzpatrick
On Sat, 13 Aug 2022 at 17:14, Ben Kelley wrote: > > This page describes what to do if you are only mapping the camera (map it > on the highway) > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dspeed_camera > On Sat, 13 Aug 2022 at 20:25, Andrew Davidson wrote: the most common approach is

Re: [talk-au] Oz tagging of speed cameras

2022-08-13 Thread Andrew Davidson
On 13/8/22 14:48, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: The message was to tell me that "every single speed camera in South Australia is already on the map" & can be viewed on OT, that "they are placed on the roads that they target exactly like traffic lights are placed. This is a standard that is agreed

Re: [talk-au] Oz tagging of speed cameras

2022-08-13 Thread Ben Kelley
Hi. This page describes what to do if you are only mapping the camera (map it on the highway) https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dspeed_camera This page describes what to do if you want to map both the device (e.g. on the footpath), and also the point on the road where the camera

[talk-au] Oz tagging of speed cameras

2022-08-12 Thread Graeme Fitzpatrick
Just had a message come through OSM (think it may have been sent to multiple people?) concerning mapping speed cameras. I've added a number of them from Notes, & have always added them as a Speed Camera node on the actual camera location usually visible on the footpath. The message was to tell