On 28. nov. 2013 20:07, Dan S wrote:
2013/11/28 Egil Hjelmeland <[email protected]>:
I have to my surprise not been able to find any established practice for
tagging webcams on internet. I am thinking of cameras that display a place,
so you can click in to see the weather, snow conditions and such. As a
service to the public, not to Big Brother. So I feel man_made=surveillance
is wrong. Also I suspect most surveillance cameras are not public on
internet.
I would like to (politely :) disagree with your split.
man_made=surveillance seems to be perfect IMHO. The word
"surveillance" may feel big-brotherish, but it is literally what a
webcam does. It seems to me you could come up with some nice tags to
add to the surveillance scheme, such as webcam=public
Best
Dan
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Considering that mountain paths are tagged as "highway", I feel the
pieces fall into place now ;-)
I still do not think man_made=surveillance is perfect. But I do not have
huge problems with it as long as it is documented.
But if I kindly refer you to
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dsurveillance , you
will see that it talk about Big Brother, not about webcams. It does not
even define how to link to a image on internet.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Extended_tags_for_Key:Surveillance
also focuses on surveillance. I just looked at
http://osmcamera.tk/tags.php . Out of 21996 man_made=surveillance in the
world, there are just 362 url= and 370 website=. Many of the website=
and a few of the url= are just links to the operators of Big Brother
non-webcams. After some random sampling, it seem to me that the majority
of actual webcams are what I would call surveillance cameras.
So when only a few hundred webcams displaying landscape are mapped in
the world, I would say there is a real problem that people do not know
how to map them.
Regaring the multiple cameras on the same spot problem, I just got an
idea; Make each camera as a relation, the only member is the location node.
-- Egil
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