[Tagging] Surveillance camera angle
Pieter Vander Vennet
pietervdvn at posteo.net
Thu Dec 30 18:51:20 UTC 2021
A small advertisement: there is a mapcomplete-theme specifically for
surveillance cameras: https://mapcomplete.osm.be/surveillance
If the 'angle' is cleared out and documented on the wiki, I might add
that too.
On 30.12.21 11:05, Volker Schmidt wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
> <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 <mailto:f at zz.de>
> Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from
> magic.
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