[Tagging] Surveillance camera angle
Tod Fitch
tod at fitchfamily.org
Thu Dec 30 19:42:10 UTC 2021
The direction tag has been used for other features to specify where they are pointing. See: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:direction#Angles_and_cardinal_directions
> On Dec 30, 2021, at 10:51 AM, Pieter Vander Vennet <pietervdvn at posteo.net> wrote:
>
> A small advertisement: there is a mapcomplete-theme specifically for surveillance cameras: https://mapcomplete.osm.be/surveillance <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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