Random Cameras Showing Up on the Map in Colorado Springs

[sack_sama]

I have seen many speed cameras added by a user, usa_jp5teqm7. I have not seen any cameras in Colorado Springs that can issue tickets since the few we had were removed last year. And I have looked it up, and I have found no credible source saying there are ticket issuing cameras in Colorado Springs.

I have tried to contact this user, as well as others who have added cameras in Colorado Springs, and in many cases, when I try to message them in the forum, I get a message telling me that the specified user does not exist.

These cameras are quite a nuisance, and since I can only see them when zoomed in a bit, I know I am missing some. Is there anything that can be done? Such as blocking a user from creating cameras? Or blocking camera creation in Colorado Springs, until they are installed again, if they ever are?

[GeekNJ]

What I think people are considering and tagging as "speed cameras" are the devices going up at intersections to allow emergency equipment (police, fire, ambulance, etc) to help control lights. People seem to think they are "cameras".

Some look like the one in this wikipedia article - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_signal_preemption

The picture at http://www.mercergov.org/Images/Imagema ... Camera.jpg are the ones we have around us.

I'm new at map editing here and have deleted many. Other then within NYC, I'm not aware of any cameras in my area.

[AlanOfTheBerg]

Cameras are added everywhere by all the people who haven't a clue what a RLC or speed cam looks like. Please see the Cameras page we have here on the waze wiki to help those clueless ones.

Just enjoy the edit point credit you get for deleting them all. Of course, if you see several clustered around an intersection, do some more research because perhaps one has been added there. It's usually the cluster which signifies an actual camera.

We've asked Waze to move the camera report to be a type of map issue, so it will be less likely that people will use it.

[emerson42]

We have people putting then up for the speed warning things police put up that say how fast you are going. It's people just not thinking.

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[gfolk]

It's not so much as people not thinking as people not understanding.

I have never had an encounter with a speed camera and didn't even know they existed. When seeing them referenced in Waze, my first thought went to the little radar units, I have seen those permanently installed. But I also thought "why would I care, they are not used for enforcement". So I looked for another explanation and discovered that some locations do have enforcement speed cameras. So I don't come down too hard on those that don't understand and think they are helping by reporting them, I just delete them when I encounter one. Maybe someday these people will stumble upon the wiki and have their eyes opened.

The same goes for RLCs. They are not all that common in California and I haven't seen any in Northern Nevada, so when the uneducated masses see a camera at an intersection they think it's an enforcement camera. In this area it is most likely used for signal control and sometimes a DOT traffic monitoring camera. I often get to correct peoples ideas on these cameras in every day conversation.




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[emerson42]

In Texas AFAIK the speed enforcement cameras (not stop light) are illegal, but it doesn't stop hundreds of reports in the area.

[shawndoc]

usa_randomgibberish = Anonymous user. There's no way to contact them.