PhotoEnforced.com has just started using Google+ in an attempt to engage further with readers and red light camera database contributors.  Please feel free to post links and articles that might be helpful to our database or for changing laws.  You can find PhotoEnforced.com Google+ here and don't forget to add us to your circles.  I also encourage you to follow Jeff Cohn Google+ as well.  PhotoEnforced.com Twitter and PhotoEnforced.com Facebook should also be followed if you use them for actively as well.

I am pretty impressed with what I’ve seen so far in the launch. Its faster and less cluttered than FaceBook. One of the key points for me though is that it is very intuitive and more flexible for filtering views. I think Google+ will eventually become the platform for business networking and Facebook will become the standard for friends and family networking. 

Google+ is not a Facebook killer but simply a supplement. If you are a heavy Google users for search, email and advertising like we are then enjoy it for the future.

Don't buy Navigon's USA Speed Camera database that is missing thousands of locations.  The company describes the camera on the iPhone app as Speed Cameras when 90% of the cameras in the US are red light cameras.  There are only a few hundred speed cameras operational in the US unlike Europe which has upwards of 40,000.  Navigon is licensing a database from RoadTraps.com which says to only have 3,800 locations in the database.  PhotoEnforced.com 2X the number of the locations in our database which we have been sourcing for 5 years longer than any competitor.  We continue to still have by far the most complete database.

Navigon charges $4.99 for the in-app purchase after paying $34.99 for something you can already do for free using Google Maps.  The company is trying to copy its method of doing business in Europe which has ten times more speed cameras than the USA.  They also charge you $14.99 to view traffic which you can also do for free using Google maps on an Android or iPhone. 

 SpeedTrapUSA.com Now What? 

Escort has introduced its SpeedTrapUSA.com website for speed-trap and red-light camera location sharing. The web site gives registered users the ability to receive early-warning notification of approaching speed traps, speed cameras, red-light cameras and other high-target traffic citation areas.  The site is free to use I think if you have a "Defender Account".  Are they trying to go against Congressional requests to remove DUI checkpoint apps from the App store?  Mobile speed traps are the same thing.

I am still amazed these radar detector camera companies like Cobra and Escort are still in business.  Why doesn't Escore or Cobra publish their data sources unlike PhotoEnforced.com who crowdsources?  Do they copy data from us?  Why don't they publish the number of locations in their database?  Makes you a little suspicious doesn't it?  Are these companies afraid of publishing their data for fear that they might be caught stealing data?  We have reached out to these companies several times but they will not return phone calls or emails.  So our quest for non-legal transparency and honesty continues.

PhotoEnforced.com was started 5 years before any other company in 2000 with the vision of creating a public open free database.  We had the vision to make the web site advertising supported from day one because we knew that data would soon become a commodity and we wanted users to contribute to it.  Five years after the radar detector business started to "dry up" due to navigation applications running on smartphones and GPS navigation devices started taking off.  Companies like Cobra and Escort became desperate for a new business model and decided to copy Europe's business model of selling subscriptions to a database they claim is proprietary or selling expensive devices giving away the database.  One huge difference is that Europe has 10X more speed cameras than the US.   How is that data subscription business going competitors when our database is free and we have thousands of monthly contributors?  

Dayton is one of just a few cities around the US that is beginning to use speed cameras. In Europe there are upwards of 40,000 cameras throughout the region. However, the United States has been slow to adopt the automated speed enforcement method.  We have all of Dayton locations and others around the US listed in our speed camera database. 

Dayton Ohio city officials are moving forward with plans to add photo speed enforcement cameras near 10 of the city’s most dangerous accident areas for automobile travelers. The automated cameras likely will be installed by late April or early May, and speeding drivers will be given a 30-day grace period. After the grace period ends an $85 fine will be issued.

Dayton will keep $55 of that fine and the rest will go to the camera company Redflex which is based in Scottsdale Arizona. Redflex is paying to install the equipment and will do the initial processing of the tickets before Dayton police will give final approval before the tickets are mailed.

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Pete Tenereillo, the founder of Trapster has apparently been acquired by Navteq / Nokia.  Navteq is a struggling  Chicago-based mapping company, that is a division of Nokia which is another struggling mobile phone maker who is quickly losing market share.  AutoBlog broke the news and said there were about five companies in the running and there was a bidding war for the company. The terms of the deal are not available. We are waiting to hear back from Nokia and Trapster.   

Pete is an engineer and a sports car enthusiast who founded the company to primarily help his fellow drivers slow down when police were near while driving through the roads of San Diego.  We met with Pete when shortly after he launched the application and only had a few hundred thousand users.  The company interest in working with us to verify our database of fixed red light camera and speed cameras locations.  We never licensed our database to Trapster but they suspiciously had most of the locations shortly thereafter.  It is not clear how they accumulated the locations in their database nor do we know how many they have. 

It has been wildly reported how many downloads they have for their application but no one ever seemed to know how many users they have on a regular basis to keep the data fresh.  The application has apparently received 9M downloads and is free.  Its very common for iPhone application to have many downloads but a non-existent user base.   However, Trapster likely has many hundreds of thousands of users who share data and its impressive how they have scaled this capability as a small company.  

Its not clear if Trapster ever generated any subscription or advertising revenue from it but we don't think so. Trapster raised an angel round of less that one million dollars a few years ago and is based in San Diego.  We are not sure if they ever raised any more money than $1M or a VC round.  However, we would like to congratulate them for raising the awareness about the application and accumulating so many users.  

As a disclaimer, we publish an open database of fixed red light camera and speed camera locations and don't do a lot to prevent companies and people from copying it.  However, we are the largest database and most accurate database of red light cameras do date and no other companies have accepted our challenge to do a database comparison.  We do have a number of companies who license our database and are ethical about paying us for data they use.  

Its great to see the company get acquired as there are several companies developing applications in Europe that are interesting in coming to the US.  Europe has 40,000+ photo enforced cameras and its a much larger and more mature business over there.  The US currently has only about 6,000 cameras but its growing at a rate of about 20% per year. 

Best Buy & Amazon Radar Detectors on Sale

While shopping today we discovered the following devices on display at Best Buy.  The store was located in California so its not surprising that the aisle was empty since its virtually impossible to get a speeding ticket on the congested roads.  However, we were wondering if any of these devices had GPS inside and were able to warn you if you were getting close to any red light cameras?

The Passport 9500ix is the only device that uses satellites for GPS navigation to pinpoint your exact location and compares it to the detector's on-board database of red light and speed camera locations.  An alert goes off as you approach a intersection with an audible and visual alert.  There is no information on how the company has acquired its database of locations and no information on how to update it.  If they truely want to have industry incredibility about the number of locations I would recommend they disclose the number of red light cameras in their database.  I can guarantee you they don't have all 7,000 location that we have in our red light camera database.  

The devices that were on the wall are also on sale at Amazon and here are their links:Search Amazon.com for radar detectorSearch Amazon.com for radar detector Solo S2, Passport 9500ix, Passport 8500 X50, Beltronics V8, Beltronics V6

  

Google Maps users deserve red light cameras and speed cameras as a layer for navigation. We have a database of 7,000 cameras we have been accumulating for the last 10 years. We have tried numerous times to reach out to Google and provide this data to them for use on Google Maps without any success.When we first started collecting the data 10 years ago there were only a few hundred cameras in use across the US. Now there are about 7,000 intersections and locations that are under photo enforcement surveillance.  Contrast that to Europe that has 50,000 cameras and most of them are speed cameras. The majority of the cameras in the US are red light cameras and not speed cameras like the Europe.

Every time we talk to large companies who want to use the data  in the US they seem worried about the legality of using the data. They ask questions like:  Is it legal to use this information? What happens if a driver gets into an accident after using the information while driving?   I am not sure I understand their concerns considering people are not trying to evade the law by using the data.  Drivers simply want to know where these locations are to avoid fender bender collisions.  People drive erratically around photo enforced locations and the residual effect are typically small accidents instead of t-bones.

Anyhow, a new user interface for Google Maps layers is being tested. The new UI enlarges the buttons that let you switch views between content layers. Now you can quickly switch between custom maps, driving directions, local search results and Google Maps layers. Google Maps also shows the weather for the current location. Its very useful and its about time they start putting some content on the map that helps people drive safely.

I am continually amazed how companies who sell radar detectors and our red light camera database competitors claim to have a more comprehensive database than we do.  PhotoEnforced.com was the first US company to start sourcing this data back in 2000 and our next competitor did not come onto the market until 2005.  How do they do it?  Well, they copied our free database online and started adding to it and selling it as their own proprietary database.  Simply ask the next time you want to license Trinity's database when they got started collecting the data and how they did it.  You probably won't get a straight answer because they will never admit that they stole information from PhotoEnforced.com.  Photoenforced.com has 7,000 - 8,000 locations in our database as of today and its growing everyday.  We also have removed hundreds of locations from our database that are inactive or not accurate.  What other competitor can claim they have a comparable database that is free?

I have asked several of these companies including to do a public "bake off" comparing the number of locations in their database.  Still no one wants to compete with crowdsourcing or user generated content because our competitors say they get too many false positives.   Here is what Trinity claims on their web site. Trinity is more accurate and complete than other databases because our team gathers more data than anyone else, to give you the most detailed alerts on the market.  In addition to the camera locations themselves, we plot:

• the camera type
• directional vectors
• speed limits (where applicable)
• ticket directions
• “no ticket” directions

When it comes to camera location data, accuracy is key. One of the reasons why Cheetah detectors are better than others, is that our proprietary database is 100% verified by Cheetah’s professional database team, which monitors all media and internet channels as well as communicating directly with police departments, city traffic engineers, city records, Municipal Codes of Ordinances, traffic bureaus, state transportation agencies, our own network of trusted camera spotters and field survey teams.

Why doesn't Trinity publish the of locations in the database?

Here is a response from Trinity on their Facebook page. Comparing number of locations won't give an accurate measure of the quality of the Trinity 2.0 database compared to other databases. For example, some other companies actively promote they have camera numbers into the millions, which would lead to extensive numbers of false alerts. We take great care to verify our camera locations are accurate and update regularly.

PhotoEnforced.com Response

Photoenforced.com started collecting the 10 years ago and have cameras in 1200 markets. Its impossible to gather the data without crowdsourcing. I agree that verification is important but that is why we have 2000+ people per day coming to PhotoEnforced.com and using the database. Not even Google or Navteq with all its resources can verify locations. Its a false claim and your database will always be behind the curve.

Red light camera tickets typically take from 3-7 business days to process and are mailed to the registered owner of the vehicle.  We recommend waiting until the ticket arrives in the mail before trying to find out ahead of time.  Some people just don't have the patience to wait and if the matter is urgent we recommend calling one of the local police departments listed in the directory below or by dialing 311 on your phone.  Please do not dial 911 on your phone as the operator will not accept your call because getting a ticket is not an emergency requiring dispatch.  Unfortunately, most Police departments are not equipped to handle this type of customer  service so expect the worst when you take on this endeavor.  You can also try searching the databases of PhotoNotice.com and Atsol.com.   Also, PhotoEnforced.com does not own, operate or run any of the cameras and we are simply a database of the locations.  Please do not email us with questions asking if you received a ticket because we do not currently have any way of verifying them.  

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Percentage of US Cities Who Use "Fat Cat" Automated Traffic Photo Enforcement

7% of US cities are now using some type of "fat cat" automated traffic enforcement to fund deficits and spending budgets that are out of control.  Fines average between $50-$500 across the US and most cities view the cameras as major "cash cows".   We estimate the US tickets from photo enforcement will approach $1 Billion dollars in the next few years. There are approximately 19,355 cities in the US according to the US Census done in 2000.   According to our photo enforcement database that we have been operating for the last 10 years (since 2000) there are approximately 1,300 cities (7%) using some time of red light camera or photo enforced traffic automation device.  For a full list of cities in the United States and Canada that use automated photo enforcement search our red light camera database.

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Red Light Camera Tickets Are Going Unpaid
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Here is a continually updated list of cities that have removed or partially removed red light camera locations recently.  Subscribe to our red light camera locations database to get a full list of detailed locations.  Keep in mind some States and County jurisdictions have passed laws preventing the use of red light cameras but Cities and Municipalities continue to use them illegally.  To remove a location please provide a link to a local newspaper article highlighting the City Council decision to remove the cameras.  We are only concerned with locations that have been permanently removed and not those that have been deactivated temporarily.

Anchorage, AK
Arlington, TX
Avondale, CA
Burlingame, CA
Brooksville, FL
College Station, TX
Costa Mesa, CA
Lilburn, GA
Loma Linda, CA
Lubbock, TX
Melbourne, FL
Monterey Park, CA
Moreno Valley, CA
Naperville, FL
Norcross, GA
Peoria, AZ
Phoenix, AZ
Redlands, CA
San Carlos, CA
Scottsdale, AZ
Springfield, MO
Snellville, GA
Suwanee, GA
St. Peters, FL
Union City, CA
Wilmington, NC
Yucaipa, CA

As always, please email us if we are missing any cities on this list or still have locations listed in our public database that should be removed.

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We receive emails everyday from frustrated TomTom users who would like to use our database and yet we can't seem to get any follow through from the company about actually licensing our database. We have met with the TomTom management team over the last few years and like them a lot.  However, it seems that the European office is calling the shots and they seem content building their own database "through their customers".  As long as TomTom's executive and marketing team are satisfied with having a crap database and being behind the curve, that is what their customers will get. TomTom's safety camera database in Europe is notorious for having crappy data because they rely on users who input data on their devices.  Garbage in and garbage out.  

Please retweet and post a comment this post if you would like to see our red light content added to the TomTom platform. I don't think management is going to change their data provider unless consumers protest.

See related story:

Garmin Red Light Camera Database is Crap

PhotoEnforced.com's crowdsourced database is the largest and most complete US database as we raise the awareness of our open platform to share information about red light cameras, right turn cameras, speed cameras or anything that is enforced using camera automation.  Our locations and fines database has been growing at a rate of 25% per year and last year we added near 2,000 new locations totaling 8000+ total:

• Red Light Cameras – 6500
• Speed Cameras – 371
• Illegal Right Turn Cameras – 119
• Combination Cameras - 381
• Both Red Light & Speed Cameras – 354
• Red Light & Illegal Right Turn Cameras - 19
• Red Light, Speed & Illegal Right Turn Cameras - 9

Our database has the first mover advantage having been founded back in 2001. Unfortunately, a number of entrepreneurs & corporations have tried to copy our data and used it to start their own POI data service. Our long term vision is to be the standard brand and source for photo enforced information and locations. Thanks to the community for your continued support!

Unfortunately, we are not the company or city that collects the ridiculous amount tickets revenue nor do we operate the camera locations.  However, before you pay your fine that ranges from $50-$500, we recommend reading one of our many blog posts about "Fighting Red Light Camera Tickets" to see if you qualify to fight the ticket. 

For some visitors who don't take the time to read "About Us", we often receive strange email questions since we own the domain Photo Enforced and visitors often mistake us for being "Big Brother".  Typically questions include:  Can look up and see if I received a ticket?  Or how do I pay for my ticket?   My answer is always you need to contact your local court house in the city where the violation may have occurred or go to one of the locations listed at the bottom. 

Which leads me to the question of customer service management for the municipalities running the programs. I think there needs to be a national destination web site for "customers" (aka individuals who have received tickets) to log into a central database and find out if they received a ticket and how to pay the fine. Guilty drivers do not want to wait two weeks to receive the notice and might even want to modify the physical mailing address tied to the vehicle to avoid employer or owner conflicts. I think the implementation of such as program would result in improved payment recovery for the cities.  

Here are some links to the various payment web sites for the camera operators and cities below.

RedFlex - Photo Notice
City of Frederick Ticket Viewer
City of San Bernardino
City of New York

This is a screen show of the welcome screen you will see on PhotoNotice.com.

Bogus GPS Business News Report

PhantomALERT Nears $1M Revenue with Speed and Red Light Cam Database

This is a complete lie and if its true the company will soon crumble for having crap data. Too many companies are copying our data and selling it for free. If you notice in the article it says the company was started in 2008 and does not disclose how they acquired their database. PhotoEnforced.com was the first company to even think about sourcing this information and started the database four years before anyone else back in 2001. I wish licensees would do their homework as ask the tough and credible questions. How did you source your data and can your history be verified?

Photo Enforced Stop Sign Camera

Photo Enforced Stop Sign Camera Sensor

Photo enforced stop sign cameras are in operation in a few locations in California but a growing trend of cities desperate for money may change that soon. Stop sign cameras are issuing minor cities in these Southern California cities: Los Angeles, Topanga and Pacific Palisades.  This intersection pictured above is in the Temescal Canyon Gateway Park.  We are aware of two other cameras which are located in Franklin Canyon, located off of Mulholland Drive, and another at the top of Topanga.Failure to come to a complete stop or roll through an intersection like this will get you a ticket of $125 in the mail.  Pictured above is a maroon camera in the background and the sensors just before the stop sign.   Photo enforced stop sign cameras are in operation in a few locations in California but a growing trend of cities desperate for money may change that soon.

Rolling right turn cameras are another trend that is growing and these fines are typically around $150 in California.  Running a red light camera on the other-hand will get you a fine of nearly $500.  You can access tour entire database of stop sign cameras throughout the USA by searching our database at PhotoEnforced.com. 

Certification of PhotoSafe Locations in Virginia Beach

I appreciate the information that is available on photoenforced.com because it helps us with our public awareness program. The cameras in Virginia Beach were activated in the first two intersections on March 13, 2009. We monitor 20 approaches at 13 intersection locations and, as of this date, we are currently the only jurisdiction with an active automated red light enforcement program in the State of Virginia. A list of our enforced intersection is available online at vbgov.com/photosafe. A list of VDOT approved jurisdictions and intersections can be found at virginiadot.org/info/photored.asp.

Automated enforcement in Virginia is a civil penalty. The automated enforcement fine is $50 and there are no court costs, no negative DMV points, no insurance notifications, and no late fees associated with a violation. There are major differences in the penalty associated with automated enforcement and officer enforcement. An officer issued summons for disregarding a red light is up to a $350 fine; the prepayable offense is $100. Court costs do apply to an officer issued summons. There are -4 points associated with the signal violation and it stays on the driver’s DMV record for 3 years.

There is a lot of disparity with the use of photo enforcement throughout the United States. The State of Virginia has approached the implementation of photo enforcement from three areas: Engineering, Education, and Enforcement. VDOT must approve each intersection for the use of enforcement cameras in the State of Virginia. In other words, if the engineering is not correct, the use of camera enforcement at the intersection will not be approved in Virginia. This process includes a standardization of yellow and all red signal timing.

The primary focuses in our PHOTOSafe program is education and awareness. We have given over 200 presentations to members of our community and established a web site that includes an interactive online presentation that explains the program, enforcement camera locations, and signal timing and coordination information. Virginia requires that photo enforcement warning signs be installed within 500 feet of the enforced intersection. Please visit our web site and give us some feedback on it. The address is vbgov.com/photosafe.

We view enforcement as the last part of our intersection safety equation. The State of Virginia has a .5 second amnesty period that prevents the cameras from activating for enforcement until the light has been red for ½ second. Our police department recognizes the need to use a combination of police officers and cameras to reduce red light running at the high crash locations.

Thanks in advance for updating our photo enforcement information. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about the use of photo enforcement in the State of Virginia.

PHOTOSafe

Program Coordinator

Virginia Beach Police Department

RED Means Stop!

Office: (757) 385-7235
vbgov.com/photosafe

I have recently started using Google Buzz for Mobile on my Android phone and have become a big fan of its potential.  I  think its quite unique and more useful if you are only interested in regional data. However, there currently isn't a on Google Buzz to hear updates from other drivers or alerts around me without picking up the phone and looking at it.  See the picture above which is a sample Google Buzz layer on Google Maps screen shot.  I think buying Aha Mobile and integrating the technology into their system would further advance the technology and make it safer for drivers.

Palo Alto-based Aha Mobile have created Aha Radio, a free mobile application that transfers a broad range of web-based information into a customizable radio experience. Aha has created a unique backend platform that safely filters, prioritizes, and delivers Web-based information to drivers. Everything from instant personalized traffic reports to an audio translation of your Facebook wall and from up-to-the minute episodes of your favorite podcasts to personalized restaurant finders. They have also created the first driver-to-driver network similar to the old CB Radio. This allows users to listen to everything from real-time traffic reports to Twitter and Facebook updates as well as red light camera location alerts, without the added stress of fumbling with a device while driving.  Aha Mobile is also a licensee of PhotoEnforced.com's database of locations and will soon be using the data to give drivers verbal alerts of cameras locations near them.  I think thes definitely solves the distracted driver problems.  Check out the demonstration video above.

Are you paying your auto insurance premiums every month?  If you are not, watch out because Nevada and a few other states are considering adding photo enforcement as a tool to catch the near 20% of drivers who are on the road without it.  

InsureNet, a Chicago-based company, has offered to pay Nevada $30 million up front for the privilege of setting up scanners and providing the necessary software to nail drivers without insurance. The company would keep a yet-to-be-determined percentage of the fines paid.

If approved by legislators, cameras would be installed at intersections and scan license plates as vehicles pass through. If 20 vehicles zip through an inter section in a 3-second period, the scanner will capture each vehicle's plate information and run it through a national database to determine the insurance status of the driver, Gibbons spokesman Dan Burns said.

"The company will decide where they want to put the cameras, but obviously you would put them in a high-traffic area," Burns said. "They sit there and scan all day." About 22 percent of Nevada drivers are without insurance, Burns said.

Legislators have shot down supporters of red-light cameras three times since 2005. Critics aired concerns about the cost and whether cameras violate motorists' rights to privacy and due process.

Insurance companies notify the DMV of insurance lapses every month. Under Nevada LIVE, the DMV will be notified immediately. The offender will receive a verification request in the mail and can dispute the citation online or in person. Motorists who fail to respond will receive a registered letter notifying them of their suspended registration.

"We don't really know too much about it," Tom Jacobs, a DMV spokesman, said of the InsureNet proposal. Burns touted the InsureNet system for its ability to catch out-of-state offenders, but Jacobs questioned the process because not all states have insurance verification programs.

It is unknown how effective InsureNet's system is. No other state has implemented the program. According to the Chicago Tribune, InsureNet representatives told Chicago officials that the company planned to have "three or four states" signed on within months. That was a year ago.

Burns said InsureNet told the governor it planned to have two other states sign on soon.