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Speed cameras in Damascus

Posted by jonnymaserati on 25 June 2009 in English.

They're finally here... the traffic department has done away with the mobile speed traps and is starting to install fixed traffic light and speed cameras, probably more interested in making money than persauding people to slow down.

I heard that they'd been put in place this month but hadn't seen any up until yesterday when I noticed two of them on my drive home. I've marked them on the map already and used the relation:enforcement tag as described here:

osm.wiki/Proposed_features/Relation:enforcement

not too keen on it to be honest though... I have to set up a new relation for each different maxspeed and it's not clear what to do with a traffic light camera that also is a speed trap... so I've assigned both relations to a single (traffic_light) node... no idea how that will render though? i think it's a bit odd using relationships to mark the cameras personally...

I've started learn how to use the relation feature from the bike routes, which I've started to label... the render isn't updated for them yet though so I can't see how they're working... something to look forward too!

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