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Take selfies with public traffic cameras

25 points by Jalad 2y ago

rahimnathwani 2y ago
I didn't recognize the names of the streets where it said my nearest camera was. It turns out it's on the other coast. Perhaps it would be good to show the distance in parentheses, or filter anything that's more than 5 miles away.
- excalibur 2y ago
  Yeah it looks like the cameras are all in NYC
theamk 2y ago
This is all for New York, the page should be updated to indicate that.
- jmclnx 2y ago
  Plus the page only seems to work on Cell Phones. If on a desktop you get a warning and allowed only to see a map of traffic cameras in NYC.
gerdesj 2y ago
"It looks like you might be on desktop, which I did not design for because I do not want you to bring your laptop into traffic :(" I'm in the UK. Why would I want to use a phone to browse a forum or hit your traffic camera thing?
- nomel 2y ago
  The purpose of this site is to take a picture of yourself using a traffic camera. This requires that you're in front of the traffic camera, which requires that you're physically in traffic, which probably wouldn't have a desktop computer involved. But, if you want to see it, you can set your user agent to some mobile agent. In Safari, this is done with the menu: Developer -> User Agent -> Safari - iOS xx.x
  - raldi 2y ago
    The purpose of this site is to make a political statement, which would be better achieved by at least showing desktop visitors an example screenshot.
- seoulmetro 2y ago
  This is their way around non-convertable interaction. They don't want PCs because PCs won't use the idea properly. They hide it behind the idea of a laptop in traffic which is disingenuous but oh well. Probably saves them a lot of headache and even costs for the site. I wish they were a bit more honest though.
  - jmclnx 2y ago
    That is all well an good, but I will not browses sites with a spyware device :) https://www.networkworld.com/article/721767/software-cell-phones-are-stalin-s-dream-says-free-software-movement-founder.html https://www.networkworld.com/article/721767/software-cell-ph...
    - dahveed311 2y ago
      What do you browse with?
      - jmclnx 2y ago
        dillo and Firefox with noscript. Browsing on that tiny screen is annoying :)
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Null-Set 2y ago
If anyone wanted to make something similar for California here is a map of traffic cameras there. https://cwwp2.dot.ca.gov/vm/iframemap.htm https://cwwp2.dot.ca.gov/vm/iframemap.htm

25 points by Jalad 2y ago

I didn't recognize the names of the streets where it said my nearest camera was. It turns out it's on the other coast. Perhaps it would be good to show the distance in parentheses, or filter anything that's more than 5 miles away.

excalibur 2y ago
Yeah it looks like the cameras are all in NYC

theamk 2y ago

This is all for New York, the page should be updated to indicate that.

jmclnx 2y ago
Plus the page only seems to work on Cell Phones. If on a desktop you get a warning and allowed only to see a map of traffic cameras in NYC.

gerdesj 2y ago

"It looks like you might be on desktop, which I did not design for because I do not want you to bring your laptop into traffic :(" I'm in the UK. Why would I want to use a phone to browse a forum or hit your traffic camera thing?

nomel 2y ago
The purpose of this site is to take a picture of yourself using a traffic camera. This requires that you're in front of the traffic camera, which requires that you're physically in traffic, which probably wouldn't have a desktop computer involved. But, if you want to see it, you can set your user agent to some mobile agent. In Safari, this is done with the menu: Developer -> User Agent -> Safari - iOS xx.x
- raldi 2y ago
  The purpose of this site is to make a political statement, which would be better achieved by at least showing desktop visitors an example screenshot.
seoulmetro 2y ago
This is their way around non-convertable interaction. They don't want PCs because PCs won't use the idea properly. They hide it behind the idea of a laptop in traffic which is disingenuous but oh well. Probably saves them a lot of headache and even costs for the site. I wish they were a bit more honest though.
- jmclnx 2y ago
  That is all well an good, but I will not browses sites with a spyware device :) https://www.networkworld.com/article/721767/software-cell-phones-are-stalin-s-dream-says-free-software-movement-founder.html https://www.networkworld.com/article/721767/software-cell-ph...
  - dahveed311 2y ago
    What do you browse with?
    - jmclnx 2y ago
      dillo and Firefox with noscript. Browsing on that tiny screen is annoying :)

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Null-Set 2y ago

If anyone wanted to make something similar for California here is a map of traffic cameras there. https://cwwp2.dot.ca.gov/vm/iframemap.htm https://cwwp2.dot.ca.gov/vm/iframemap.htm