Precise location of fixed speed cameras throughout New Zealand
Peter O'Connor made this Official Information request to New Zealand Transport Agency
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From: Peter O'Connor
Dear New Zealand Transport Agency,
I'm interested in developing an app for mobile phones and portable devices to promote safety information to people travelling unfamiliar roads. These people may be tourists or visitors from another part of the country.
I'd like the GPS co-ordinates of all fixed cameras located throughout new Zealand. I'm assuming speed cameras are located in situations where it is especailly important for drivers to control their speed. This is one of the sources of safety information I'll be using for my app.
I'd like the information in electronic form. Ideally it can be made available in the form of an API so that any changes can be automatically updated for drivers.
Yours faithfully,
Peter O'Connor
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New Zealand Transport Agency
Dear Peter,
Please see attached letter transferring your OIA request of 15 September
2014 to the NZ Police.
Regards
Andrew Martin / Manager, Official Information
Official Correspondence Unit
Strategy, Communications & Performance Group
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From: SMITH, Jason
Dear Peter
Please find attached the New Zealand Police response to your Official
Information Act request.
Yours sincerely
Jason Smith
Road Policing Support | New Zealand Police - Nga Pirihimana O Aotearoa
P +64 4 470 7107 | Ext: 44407
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Police National Headquarters, 180 Molesworth Street, PO Box 3017,
Wellington, 6140, New Zealand
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From: Peter O'Connor
Dear SMITH, Jason,
My request was passed to you from NZTA 15 September 2014. I'm not sure why you refer to 9 October as the date of my request. You have responded 2 December. I don't believe your response has met the timeliness standards for OIA requests. You have not sought any clarification from me or provided any explanation for your delayed response.
Your response is also inadequate in my view. I requested the GPS co-ordinates of all fixed cameras located throughout New Zealand. I asked for this information in electronic form. Ideally, in the form of an API. Your response states that at some point you intend to release general location information, not GPS coordinates. Suggesting that what I have asked for is, or soon will be, publicly available is a nonsense.
I will take up your offer to complain to the Ombudsman.
Yours sincerely,
Peter O'Connor
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Do you plan to pursue this further? I am very interested in seeing this information.
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