Shorty-CM wrote:Think so? All the ones I've seen look like this.

http://goo.gl/maps/ZBLpI

edit - Also, if the camera you pointed out is the only style of camera that ICBC are using then he didn't even delete the correct cameras at that intersection, as that is watching in the southbound direction. *shrug*

edit - Sure looks like a camera to me. http://goo.gl/maps/kEBlI

That is a camera: a traffic control camera. They are used at intersections with smarter red light system to reduce unnecessary backups due to dumb light cycles. You can tell the difference from the fact that traffic control cameras tend to be near the lights themselves and look towards the the traffic waiting at the light. Red light cameras on the other had are placed away from the intersection looking towards the "box" beneath the lights. Also, red light cameras tend to be much larger as they also contain a powerful flash.

https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/imag ... CXSV-nmKfg

In many US states, warning signs, typically like the one seen above - though exact wording can vary from state to state - for red light cameras must be posted ahead of the intersection to avoid problems with privacy concerns when prosecuting violations, though the signs are usually small and subtle and only a couple hundred feet (less than 100m) ahead of the intersection, where it is much too late to do anything about seeing one if you're speeding toward that intersection trying to beat that yellow light.

The tall antenna-like things often seen on traffic light structures that look like they have a camera on them are not red-light cameras. Like many on here have said, they try to identify the strobe patterns of emergency vehicles to give them a prompt green light for safer passage though the intersection.

Sorry, but I don't think Spazinbc's info is 100% correct, no matter how much he believes it is. He tried talking to me about it before, and when the first-hand information I gave him was something he didn't agree with, he obviously didn't like it. He seems to think that ICBC employees couldn't possibly have bad information in their heads, and they all know what they're talking about 100% of the time, which is itself a pretty good joke. It's a government corporation with government employees, which I think should be 'nuff said.

In the third link he lists, for example, the intersection of 70th Ave and Oak Street is the one he is referring to. There used to be, and should still be, four cameras listed for that intersection. Someone's deleted three of them for some reason, probably Spazinbc, heh. I know there are four cameras there, because I added them myself via the client, all four seperately on different occasions, when I was driving in all four directions at those different times. Not only does Google's Street View show all four cameras, but there are warning signs from all four directions before you get to that intersection stating that there are red light cameras there, and if I went to that intersection right now I could point out all four cameras, just as you see in Street View.

Heading north: http://goo.gl/maps/OVd2L
Facing north: http://goo.gl/maps/Cq4iw
Heading south: http://goo.gl/maps/OnQWo
Facing south: http://goo.gl/maps/tdXz2
Heading east: http://goo.gl/maps/dtrSC
Facing east: http://goo.gl/maps/Sz0M3
Heading west: http://goo.gl/maps/8EGT8
Facing west: http://goo.gl/maps/8EGT8

Are those cameras not cameras? Are those signs indicating cameras not signs indicating cameras?

edit - If I'm looking at the wrong things, by all means, please correct me.

Think so? All the ones I've seen look like this.

http://goo.gl/maps/ZBLpI

edit - Also, if the camera you pointed out is the only style of camera that ICBC are using then he didn't even delete the correct cameras at that intersection, as that is watching in the southbound direction. *shrug*

edit - Sure looks like a camera to me. http://goo.gl/maps/kEBlI

jasonh300 wrote:The devices on top of the traffic light standards are not RLCs. They're light sensors that make the lights turn green emergency vehicles approach. They read a pattern in the flashing lights and change the light cycle.

That is indeed a traffic control camera. We have them here in Tampa, Florida to. You can't catch red light runner from the front! How do you get their tag number? Although if they have tag numbers in the front in Canada, a simple camera is not going to do the trick catching red light runners. It takes a suite of sensors. If you look at the intersection for this link you gave above;
Heading north: http://goo.gl/maps/OVd2L
you can see the Red Light Camera is on a very tall pole mounted to the traffic light cross support.

JohnnyLaw66 wrote:As a new editor, I'd actually appreciate a PM (with a permalink) if something I edited needs to be corrected. That way I can see what I did wrong.

Seconded, there's a lot of experience and custom here which isn't really in the guides.