[Tagging] Tagging the presence or absence of signs for surveillance cameras

Jez Nicholson jez.nicholson at gmail.com
Wed Feb 19 11:45:57 UTC 2020


In general, are these signs physically on the camera, or are they in the
vicinity? If so, should they be tagged objects in their own account?

On Wed, 19 Feb 2020, 10:54 John Sturdy, <jcg.sturdy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Whatever the concensus in another discussion was, I think that double
> negatives will risk confusion, and that *:signed=yes and *:signed=no seems
> to be a reasonable proposal.
>
> I have noticed that some but not all of the surveillance cameras (city
> council, I believe) in Cambridge (UK) have signs.
>
> __John
>
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 10:13 AM marc marc <marc_marc_irc at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Le 19.02.20 à 04:29, Victor/tuxayo a écrit :
>> > Coincidentally there was a recent discussion[2] about these signs in the
>> > french mailing list (talk-fr) which lead to adding the following section
>> > in the page
>> > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made=surveillance
>>
>> I warn that this addition does not reflect the discussion that took
>> place on talk-fr, but is "self-declared as consensus"
>> more than half of the opinions are that a regulatory sign of this kind
>> is not tourist information (imho I think it is closer to a sign that
>> announces a pedestrian crossing or a maxspeed zone)
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