Camera reminders that understand the route, not just the radius.

What Waybi means by “safety-camera awareness”

Waybi does not claim to detect enforcement activity. It uses the public list of fixed safety-camera locations and places that information in the context of a planned route. During navigation, high-confidence matched cameras can appear on the map and trigger an approach reminder at an appropriate distance.

This is deliberately different from showing every camera point within a large circle around the driver. A nearby camera on a parallel road, a road underneath a motorway or a road travelling in another direction may not be relevant to the active route. Waybi uses route geometry and road context to reduce those false positives.

How the camera dataset is kept current

The production Cloudflare Worker checks the official source every six hours. A new snapshot only replaces the current one when the source date and coordinates pass validation. If a sync fails or a candidate dataset looks invalid, Waybi retains the most recent validated snapshot instead of replacing good data with an empty or suspicious result.

What the public source does not tell Waybi

The published fixed-camera list is useful, but it is not a complete description of enforcement on every road. The source does not provide every direction-of-travel or enforcement-lane attribute that a navigation system might want. Waybi therefore avoids presenting those unknowns as facts.

• It does not claim that every mobile or temporary enforcement location is known.
• It does not claim that every published camera applies to every direction or lane.
• It does not replace speed-limit signs, temporary road controls or other legal requirements.
• It does not guarantee that a camera dataset is real-time simply because it was recently checked.

Route matching before an alert

After a route is calculated, Waybi projects camera points against the route geometry and records how far along the route each match occurs. The navigation experience can then reason about the driver's progress along that route rather than only the straight-line distance to the camera.

High-confidence matches are used for approach alerts. This makes reminders more useful on dense urban roads where several streets may be physically close together but operationally unrelated.

Camera reminders and voice guidance should not fight each other

Waybi's navigation experience separates primary turn guidance from secondary road-awareness announcements. Camera speech can wait for an active navigation instruction to finish so two voices do not compete at the same moment. The visual alert also keeps the road name and distance visible without taking over the whole map.

Why Waybi calls them safety cameras

Waybi follows the terminology used by NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi for its safety-camera programme. The feature is positioned as road awareness: useful context about the road ahead, not a tool for ignoring posted limits. Drivers remain responsible for following the law and the conditions in front of them.