Overview
FoxyTag is a collaborative system to signal speed cameras on mobile phones.
If you participate by signaling new cameras or by confirming existing ones, you can set up trusted links with other users and benefit from more reliable information.
With this collaborative approach, FoxyTag is the most complete and up-to-date speed camera database in the world.
Usage
To report a camera to FoxyTag, tap the screen and follow the instructions. First you choose the type of camera. Then you choose the direction of the camera. You can also report that a camera is missing (removed), or cancel the report.
To avoid an exclusion of the system due to a misuse of the application, please read the following points:
  • A speed camera must be tagged or confirmed when the user is as close as possible to it (not in the first moment he sees it). Otherwise there will be a second tag for the same camera and other users will decrease his trust links.
  • A camera inside a tunnel or close to a tunnel exit (typically less than 10 seconds after the exit) must be tagged at the tunnel entry.
  • It is useless to confirm the same speed camera several times. In some particular situations this can even be bad for the user's trust links.
  • In case of a doubt (is there a camera?) it is better not to tag than to tag incorrectly.
  • If there is any doubt whether a camera can flash in both directions or not, it is better to tag for both directions.
  • A traffic light camera should be tagged and treated like a speed camera.
The headings in the tags indicate the "dangerous" direction, the direction where a driver could get a fine if he is speeding. It has nothing to do with the orientation of the camera, whether the camera will record your front or your back number plate.
Ghosts
When a mobile speed camera tag disappears, it becomes a ghost. If there are often mobile speed cameras at a specific place or in its neighbourhood, the ghosts stay active (and are sent to you) in order to signal that you are in a risky zone. Ghosts communicate between them, so it is possible that you see a ghost a few hundred of meters before the actual position of the mobile speed camera (since this is not always at the same position).
Test mode
If you leave the password field empty (in the parameters), your application runs in the test mode and the word "TEST" appears on your screen. This mode allows you to test the FoxyTag application by posting as many tags as you want, without modifying the trust relations you have with other drivers. Tags posted in this mode are only saved temporarily and are only visible for other test mode users.
This mode allows you to train yourself in order to get to know the FoxyTag application before you get your username and your password, but it also allows you to show demos to your friends. Typically, you can post a few tags on imaginary cameras and come back 5 minutes later (time needed to update the data by the server) to observe how FoxyTag behaves close to cameras.
See also:
Radar screen