<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">The direction tag has been used for other features to specify where they are pointing. See: <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:direction#Angles_and_cardinal_directions" class="">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:direction#Angles_and_cardinal_directions</a><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 30, 2021, at 10:51 AM, Pieter Vander Vennet <<a href="mailto:pietervdvn@posteo.net" class="">pietervdvn@posteo.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class=""><p class="">A small advertisement: there is a mapcomplete-theme specifically
for surveillance cameras: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://mapcomplete.osm.be/surveillance">https://mapcomplete.osm.be/surveillance</a><br class="">
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If the 'angle' is cleared out and documented on the wiki, I might
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<div class="">Thanks, Florian. <br class="">
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<div class="">Learned something new: we have some 700 of these in town.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 30 Dec 2021 at 10:13,
Florian Lohoff <<a href="mailto:f@zz.de" moz-do-not-send="true" class="">f@zz.de</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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Hi,<br class="">
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On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 11:07:02AM +0100, Volker Schmidt
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> Just a little note of caution: we have plenty of new
traffic surveillance<br class="">
> cameras installed by the municipality. Many of them have
darkish inverted<br class="">
> glass domes that made me assume they are 360° cameras. I
recently had a<br class="">
> bicycle accident near one of them and asked the police
for the photos. I<br class="">
> learned that inside these domes there are conventional
directional cameras<br class="">
> whose direction is changed from time to time by the
operator. Conclusion:<br class="">
> be careful with camera properties.<br class="">
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I would not haved assumed that 360° means a 360° field of
view. It means<br class="">
remote controlled camera who may be viewing at the complete
field of<br class="">
view. <br class="">
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And the OSM Article here confirms that assumption:<br class="">
<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dsurveillance" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dsurveillance</a><br class="">
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"A characteristic dome camera, with usually a dark 'glass'
dome under<br class="">
which a freely moving camera is situated. Also known as a PTZ<br class="">
(pan/tilt/zoom)"<br class="">
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Flo<br class="">
-- <br class="">
Florian Lohoff
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable
from magic.<br class="">
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