Rockville Maryland Intensive Update Task and questions for experienced users

1.) Each update contains the entire list of currently active locations.
2.) No, they will overwrite the previous file unless you do the renaming thing and make your life unnecessarily difficult.
3.) Just the facts: City and state, coordinates, both street names, and directions covered by the cameras.
4.) If you mean you sent a google file forcing Miss POI to dig out the coordinates, I suspect she'd appreciate the info in the format mentioned in #3.
5.) She updates weekly.
6.) With some 70,000 members, that won't likely be a problem.
7.) Again, I think simple is best -- as in #3. Just make sure you are reporting enforcement cameras, and not traffic control cameras.

The only thing I would add to this:

3.) Just the facts: City and state, coordinates, both street names, and directions covered by the cameras.

Is for the posted speed limit for speed cameras.

Miss POI has been known to contact people and ask them to verify reports of installed and/or removed cameras through email.

That, and welcome to the site.

yup that is the good thing about having so many members. All I have to do is look through my member list to find a reliable source to verify new info.

You guys are really great about getting back to me right away also.

I have been known to lure old users back to the site with my inquiries.

Miss POI

Thanks for the welcome to the site and for the feedback.

Does someone know if there is a batch process to show the POI Speed and Red Light locations in Google Earth,using the files we download for use with our Garmin GPS units?

I have been working with geotagged images and related data for many years and thought that Google Earth might be a quick way to do a small area scan, or data dump of actual locations in a given community. Has anyone tried this? Thanks. rstephen2

I imagine the information about that is somewhere on this site. Just haven't had time lately to search. I would also be interested in how to convert the POI files into a format that allows proximity alerts on a Garmin (when you get near enough to where the POI is). I am certain that is available. Maybe this weekend I can search for it!

Extra Poi Editor http://turboccc.wikispaces.com/Extra_POI_Editor will allow you to open a file in Google Earth or Mapsource.Listed under the tools option.

#6... I am in the DC area as well, and will be getting back to sending stuff in like I use to now that I am on the road again everyday.... AND THERE ARE TONS OF CAMERAS all over the great DC and Baltimore area, from Speed Traps to Red Light Cameras... and in Montgomery County the new Speed Trap cameras are going up almost weekly now around the county.

I have tried to see if the Montgomery County, Rockville, abd Bethesda Maryland municipality listings of the cameras is up to date, and have found that there appear to be "many" new additional cameras that I have seen on the road that are not in the databases or on the maps of my local jurisdictions. We should be able to have at least the baseline of existing cameras from the official websites, but have to keep a heads up to add all the new ones. I noted one jurisdiction that used Google Earth maps to show the locations of the cameras that they did list. That means someone has figured out how to do a batch process on POI files. Have a great week! Bob S.