Talk:Key:contact:webcam

Why not just use website=*?

Why don't we use the existing website=* tag? Aharvey (talk) 00:03, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

This should link to the (raw) live photo or video feed directly. website=* can be an ordinary page with info in text. The man_made=* have some man_made=monitoring_station , which usually have webpages.
There are a dozen for what's it installed on ( man_made=tower , man_made=mast )
An extra possibility is it might be usable on the feature it's capturing, if there's a prominent webcam of interest. I haven't checked what the 85 and 14 are though. Further to the above, there's no type=* to database-link them (except type=enforcement ), relying on some spatial proximity.
—— Kovposch (talk) 08:51, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

Okay. Because that's not clear at all from the current documentation. Is the expectation that a GET request to the contact:webcam=* URL be Content-Type: image/* or video/*? Or it can be a HTML web page, so long as the page primarily displays the video/image on the page, as opposed to just general text information about the traffic camera?

For example https://www.livetraffic.com/traffic-cameras/sydney-north/warringah-road-forestville is the canonical url for https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/13271531407 but given that includes a map as well would that be website=https://www.livetraffic.com/traffic-cameras/sydney-north/warringah-road-forestville then use contact:webcam=https://webcams.transport.nsw.gov.au/livetraffic-webcams/cameras/warringah_road_forestville.jpeg? Aharvey (talk) 09:54, 2 March 2026 (UTC)