No, you need this one: https://docs.google.com/a/waze.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGl6TVF2bzFtdHRWUDVzR3N5TllZanc6MA#gid=0
I shall correct the Wiki page…
No, you need this one: https://docs.google.com/a/waze.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGl6TVF2bzFtdHRWUDVzR3N5TllZanc6MA#gid=0
I shall correct the Wiki page…
Thanks Timbones,
It seemed a little odd… ![]()
I find plenty of police and camera van spots marked as speed cameras on my travels and it’s rather annoying.
Simply because they only are there occasionally. They really only should be flagged as police visible or police invisible, but never as regular speedcams.
There’s very few fixed speedcams in the Republic simply because they usually get torched
And a lot of the ones, that still are in existance, haven’t worked in years.
/M
There are no longer any working speed cameras anywhere in Ireland (south of the border
) and any that show up on the map should be deleted.
Arthur O’Hara went to the trouble of calling the NRA to find out this useful fact. See this thread here elsewhere in the Ireland forum: https://world.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=119&t=46335
Places where camera vans tend to be found or where the Gardai commonly have speed traps should not be marked as speed cameras. The police (visible or invisible) reports can be used, although these don’t stick around for long. If you see any speed cameras on the Ireland map, then go ahead and delete them (we can change this policy if fixed cameras ever show up again).
++David \ davidg666
Agreed.
/M
Ive been using Waze since September, but have only started looking at these forums in the last few days. I have marked quite a few speed vans as cameras, because I thought that’s what it was for. It wasn’t until I came on here that I learned that the icon is for fixed cameras. So dont get too impatient with us n00bs ![]()
Hi,
A small contribution so I hope you don’t mind… ![]()
What is the “Speed Camera” alert for? To let us know that there is a “safety” camera there so we can slow down prior to capture.
In the Uk certainly,this is almost now irrelevant (with proviso) in some areas as they use average speed cameras. So if you have been speeding between two paired cameras, you’re caught no mater whether you slow down for the second or not. The ONLY safe way is to maintain the limit and maybe a little more for speed.
I am not sure whether you have these beauties in Ireland yet, but I am sure you will at some point. I’m sorry. ![]()
So, should an occasional camera (Van, gardai whatever) be mapped. Theoretically no as it is not always there.
But people who don’t have local knowledge won’t know that a spot is popular for catching those who are going too fast (for whatever reason). Why shouldn’t they get the benefit of local knowledge and have the camera on the map?
Those who know and carry on speeding if sure there is no manned presence, those who don’t can slow down accordingly.
I know that turning off the speed cam layer does nothing to stop the warning pop-ups! Pointless!
I know I mapped a spot near me which had regular speed cam vans parked on the pavement. Since being mapped the regularity of their visits has dropped. Not seen it for over 6 months now… So maybe there is an advantage to mapping them?
It is, of course, your decision on this… ![]()
I find it easier to leave more time for my journey and travel just above the stated limit… ![]()
Des. . . ![]()
Contributions always welcome!
We don’t have those - not yet, anyway - but I think they are under consideration.
If Waze had a means of alerting based on locations where a speed trap (whether a van or a garda presence) might sometimes be found, and that could be turned off, then I would support this.
However, I find frequent popups quite annoying, especially when there often isn’t anything at the location. There are also supposedly something like 600 locations where camera vans can be found around Ireland. If every single one of these triggered an alarm that couldn’t be turned off, then I definitely wouldn’t support this.
Summary: if (and only if) Waze would support alerts that could be turned off of places where vans and/or speed traps might be found, then I’d support that. With what Waze does right now, I definitely don’t support mapping these locations as speed cameras.
I do think that, assuming these things are designed to encourage safer driving (rather than gathering revenue), knowledge of speed cameras is a good thing, because it should slow people down. This also assumes speed limits are set intelligently. That’s a separate debate, however, and outside of Waze.
++David \ davidg66