Dubai - land of speed cameras

[springstone]

Not much grows in the deserts of the UAE, except maybe speed cameras.

They're everywhere, which is a testament to how people drive in this part of the world. Anyway, this is question for both map editing and the clients really.

Speed cameras in Dubai are bi-directional in general. Very few of them are fixed at trapping a certain direction. The new ones can be turned 360 degrees - so some days traps direction A from the front/rear, then direction B from the front/rear), and others can trap both sides at once. Wazers are reporting speed cameras galore, same camera - both directions, and well, navigating along a well speed camera populated stretch of road results in a constant "speed camera ahead" alert (one after the other).

So my question is, can we add a bi-directional speed camera?

[gettingthere]

So my question is, can we add a bi-directional speed camera?

There is not current support for this. You currently need a camera for each direction.

It seems to me that functionality of speed cameras in Waze is diminished if they are as widely deployed as you say they are. In that case it may be worthwhile to work on a standard for your area not to map any of them since they are 'everywhere'. Wazers should expect that they are everywhere and not need any warning about them.

[springstone]

Don't get me wrong, it's a great feature of Waze. Driving in the UAE is well, fast-paced to state it mildly. In general all the freeways offer a 20km/h grace on the speed limit, so a 120km/h speed limit means cameras flash at 140 km/h - and the fast lane really hovers around that speed.

The problem I was describing was more related to one particular road section in the UAE that is peppered with cameras.

The rest have a normal distribution, but every major road does have speed cameras, but more importantly, road speed limits tend to change illogically, and are not always clearly indicated - which is where the cameras would come in handy.

Anyway, support for omni-directional cameras would be great, but as you say, not essential.