Thread: Traffic Cams International v1.3.0 (1.4 Beta available)

Originally Posted by Machinehead

Even the Gateway Guide description of some the cams makes zero sense to me. Of course when you have almost 100 cams it gets a little confusing at times. There aren't very many cams on the IL side of river at least.

Glad to see you willing to take up the baton. Here's whats been done already to save you the trouble of any duplication. I also added some other references I found on the net.

Originally Posted by GizmoQ

Glad to see you willing to take up the baton. Here's whats been done already to save you the trouble of any duplication. I also added some other references I found on the net.

You seem a little too willing to pass this off. It must be a real PITA.

Originally Posted by GizmoQ

Glad to see you willing to take up the baton. Here's whats been done already to save you the trouble of any duplication. I also added some other references I found on the net.

Are the Ones with coords already in the database or to go I the database.

Actually same question to the XML files as well.

Originally Posted by Machinehead

You seem a little too willing to pass this off. It must be a real PITA.

Originally Posted by Enforcer

Are the Ones with coords already in the database or to go I the database.

Actually same question to the XML files as well.

Enforcer, please disregard. The cams in the "documented" text file are already in your database. I never finished getting the GPS Coordinates for the 25 cams on the Illinois side.

This attachment was meant for MachineHead, and yes it is a PITA to find the actual .JPG web addresses and then use whatever mapping software you have available to determine where exactly the cameras are situated. Some of them have recognizable landmarks and the pics pretty much tell you what direction the camera is pointed, but even comparing satellite data with the pics doesn't help in some locations cause they just don't seem to match. And aside from driving out to each site, it got frustrating. I am more familiar with the cams on the Missouri side so those are the ones I tagged with GPS Coords.

I tell you what, MachineHead, I'll go ahead tonight and map the IL cams and you let me know which others you need help with.

I guess I have to ask the dumb question, why are the GPS coords necessary?

The US database isn't searchable by map like the UK database is, at least as far I can tell from the whole 10 minutes I've played with it.

Originally Posted by Enforcer

No, what I meant was you wanted to be able to search within the search results.

eg

Find all cameras within OH


Then find all Sometown within those results.


Something I can look at adding.

Nah... personally, I think that's overkill... The search one we have now is enough as long as it finds all, not missing anything... For example, if i search for Dallas, TX, then it should list all the cams in Dallas those ones registered in your DB. If i search for TX, then it should find all of the cams in TX..

I noticed not all of the dallas ones are listed and that's because no one has provided you the cood for them yet, not cuz search failed, right?

Originally Posted by Machinehead

I guess I have to ask the dumb question, why are the GPS coords necessary?

The US database isn't searchable by map like the UK database is, at least as far I can tell from the whole 10 minutes I've played with it.

Originally Posted by Enforcer

Thanks John, next thing is [HL]to get it to show locations of cameras near you.[/HL] OF COURSE THAT MEANS I NEED MORE [HL]GPS COORDS [/HL]for the cameras alrwady in there.

Originally Posted by Enforcer

[HL]Cameras by GPS location didn't make this one [/HL](mainly because, apart from the UK, I haven't got enough cameras with GPS coords.)

Originally Posted by Enforcer

....................[HL]if it showed cameras by your GPS position [/HL].

Also I didn't know the UK was searchable by map.



The other use is the ability to show where the camera is on the map when using the search page (Oh maybe you meant that, but the US has that, there are just not enough cameras with GPS coords for them all to show a map)

Originally Posted by brandensin

I noticed not all of the dallas ones are listed and that's because no one has provided you the cood for them yet, not cuz search failed, right?

There may not have been links for them, or the location name may not be right, or they didn't work when I tried them, or they are new since I last did Dallas.

Originally Posted by Enforcer

The other use is the ability to show where the camera is on the map when using the search page (Oh maybe you meant that, but the US has that, there are just not enough cameras with GPS coords for them all to show a map)

That is what I meant.

It shouldn't be that bad to come up with urls and descriptions for all the St. Louis, MO cams, the gps coords may be an issue. Although I can always approximate it to what is shown on the cam map.

I'll keep plugging away on it.