[Tagging] Surveillance camera angle

[Florian Lohoff]

Hi,

On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 11:07:02AM +0100, Volker Schmidt wrote:
> Just a little note of caution: we have plenty of new traffic surveillance
> cameras installed by the municipality.  Many of them have darkish inverted
> glass domes that made me assume they are 360° cameras. I recently had a
> bicycle accident near one of them and asked the police for the photos. I
> learned that inside these domes there are conventional directional cameras
> whose direction is changed from time to time by the operator. Conclusion:
> be careful with camera properties.

I would not haved assumed that 360° means a 360° field of view. It means
remote controlled camera who may be viewing at the complete field of
view. 



And the OSM Article here confirms that assumption:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dsurveillance

"A characteristic dome camera, with usually a dark 'glass' dome under
which a freely moving camera is situated. Also known as a PTZ
(pan/tilt/zoom)"


Flo
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Florian Lohoff                                                     f at zz.de
  Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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