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

[John Sturdy]

On the ones I've noticed in Cambridge, they are either on the lower part of
the pole supporting the camera, or, for building-mounted cameras, on the
wall below the camera.  (The cameras are well above head height, and
notices on them would not be readable unless very large.)

On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 11:48 AM Jez Nicholson <jez.nicholson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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