How about Radar / VASCAR trap locations?

 

Hi, does the database have any POIs where police sit consistently with radar guns or the white painted lines for VASCAR?
Thanks,
Scott

Unlikely

The database focuses on automated enforcement options. Since RADAR and VASCAR still involve human interaction it's unlikely they will be included.

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Tough to document places that move or maybe monitored ..

once a week or once a month. Some of these you just have to know where they are because we're talking about adding hundreds of locations in some states and easily thousands around the USA that many will
find no one home 90% of the time.

I made one for southeastern PA

cosmoose wrote:

Hi, does the database have any POIs where police sit consistently with radar guns or the white painted lines for VASCAR?
Thanks,
Scott

I made one for I-95 which travels through southeastern PA.

Basically every spot where there's a break in the median barrier is a place I personally have seen the PA State Police with RADAR. More often than not though you won't see a cop at all in these locations. So you get a lot of false alerts, better safe than sorry I guess.

I have other similar files folks have made for this part of the country so they do exist. Do a forum search for "Speed Traps".

The POI I made:

PA Interstate Ninety Five Speed Traps

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/37454

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Thats what a redar detector is for

cosmoose wrote:

Hi, does the database have any POIs where police sit consistently with radar guns
Scott

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re: radar / ah the days of the Escort

can't believe that co. is still in business.

I remember using one and it alerted me that we got tagged with laser. Didn't do much for the 155 in a 55 summons though.

@soberbyker: In case it

@soberbyker: In case it wasn't obvious, I interpreted the OP's question to mean the red light and speed camera files. Good to know rhat a solution is available for the OP. smile

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Good website for this

I know you're looking for a national POI file, but I agree with Frside007: the false alarm rate would be too high for this one to not be more annoying than informative loaded onto a GPS. And VASCAR enforcement that involves aircraft is so expensive that I doubt many states do that much anymore. I'm not saying no one ever does it--I'm just saying it's rare in most places that have VASCAR stripes on the roads.

Another problem is that some notorious speed traps run over an extended, say 10-mile section of highway or the entire run of a main road through a specific small town. Extended or general areas like that are difficult to alert effectively in a GPS POI situation which works best flagging a particular location like a bridge a cop likes to hide behind.

There is a good website for information on these locations:
www.speedtrap.org

If you check the website for speed traps in areas you know well, you'll probably see that some are right and some are wrong in your opinion. Some may be out-of-date. There is a place there for each "speed trap" to vote whether or not you agree and to comment. The more "I agree" votes and comments you see for a particular "speed trap," the more you know you better take it seriously.

Having gotten burned with a notorious local speed trap in an unfamiliar area once, I do check this site for info before driving through unfamiliar areas, especially on back roads. But I rarely see cops in the areas I make a note to be particularly careful. I think the same thing would happen with this on a GPS.

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Hate to say so!

johnnatash4 wrote:

I remember using one and it alerted me that we got tagged with laser. Didn't do much for the 155 in a 55 summons though.

If you were doing 155 in a 55 zone then you deserve to have the book thrown at you.

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not sure

Strephon_Alkhalikoi wrote:

@soberbyker: In case it wasn't obvious, I interpreted the OP's question to mean the red light and speed camera files. Good to know rhat a solution is available for the OP. smile

Not sure what you mean, to me he wanted files of places other than automated and I suggested some do exist, including one I made????

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What I meant was that to me

What I meant was that to me he was asking whether RADAR/VASCAR could be added to the site's red light and speed camera databases.

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oh ok

Strephon_Alkhalikoi wrote:

What I meant was that to me he was asking whether RADAR/VASCAR could be added to the site's red light and speed camera databases.

Gotcha.

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Smartphone Apps

I know he was wanting something for his GPS but at this time I believe the best you can do would be to use a smartphone app like Waze or Trapster, that uses crowd sourced information to tell where the police are at any given time.
I find Waze to be accurate over 90% of the time and I typically use it whenever I drive.

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