[Tagging] Surveillance camera angle

[Volker Schmidt]

Thanks, Florian.
Learned something new: we have some 700 of these in town.

On Thu, 30 Dec 2021 at 10:13, Florian Lohoff <f at zz.de> wrote:

>
> 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
> --
> Florian Lohoff                                                     f at zz.de
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