[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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