Why the old photographs are gone
The original page hosted an archive of reader-submitted roadside photographs. Recreating it from archived copies would have been straightforward and would have been wrong, for three separate reasons.
- Copyright sits with the photographer. Images submitted to a website years ago were licensed, at most, to that site under whatever terms then applied. A later owner of the domain does not acquire those rights by acquiring the address.
- People and plates appear in roadside photographs. Images taken at the roadside routinely capture identifiable vehicles, registration plates and sometimes the people in them. Republishing them now, without consent and without any way to contact the subjects, is not a defensible position.
- The photographs are obsolete anyway. Equipment, housings, markings and signage have all changed. A gallery of two-decade-old roadside images would misinform anyone trying to recognise what is actually installed on British roads today.
What the screens above show
The images are current first-party screenshots of Speed Cameras Radar, captured from the application itself rather than from marketing renders. They show the map view with route context, alert presentation, and the settings a driver would configure before setting off — the setup described in more detail under alerts and distraction.
Interfaces change between releases and differ between iOS and Android. Treat these as a fair representation of the application rather than as a specification of any particular version, and check the store listings for what the current release actually contains.
The image policy going forward
New road-camera photographs will be used here only when they are produced by us, published by an official source on compatible terms, or licensed for this use. Each photograph will identify its source, and its licence where the licence requires attribution. Where a useful official image exists but cannot be republished, the page will link to it at its source instead of reproducing it.
The same rule applies to diagrams, maps and any third-party material. This is the visual half of the approach described on the sources and methodology page: preserve the address, do not inherit somebody else's rights problems.
If you own an image that once appeared here
Nothing from the former archive has been republished, so there should be nothing of yours on this site. If you believe otherwise, or if you would like to license a photograph for use here, the contact page explains what to include so the request can be dealt with quickly.