Shots of the Day: 25.02.08

Well OK, it was a grey day and not one that was the best for capturing great photos by highway cameras. I checked Google Earth to see if I could identify where the highway cameras were located and I found a few of them.

To my eye the Durham Bridge camera is on an intersection looking downhill and east.

And I think that this is the Google Earth view of the location. I have marked it with a red circle and indicated the sight line of the camera with a line.


The Dieppe camera also looks east towards Sackville and is located inside the loop of the highway intersection with the highway to Shediac.

The highway camera at the highway bridge over the Saint John River from Coytown to Sheffield is close to the highway on the north said of the highway.

The Aroostook River camera seems to be located looking north and uphill over the Aroostook River. There is a barn visible to the hard right that I think is identifiable in the Google Earth view.

The Copp Loop Road highway camera is not as easy to identify and I am not sure about the location for this one. The farm seems to consist of a long older barn parallel to the road as in the Google Earth view and there are few candidates for the camera location.

The problem of course with Google Earth is that there are very few areas of high resolution in New Brunswick. The locations above are the ones that I am most sure of in high resolution areas. The cameras at the intersection of highway 95 and 540 is in a high resolution area but I could not be sure of the location. The camera looks west and is in a wooded section of divided highway and the only section that fits that description is too close to Woodstock to fit the description of being near the intersection.

The Saint John, Pennfield Ridge and Cape Pele cameras are likely in high resolution areas but their camera fields of view are so non-descript that I cannot be sure of their location. The other cameras all appear to be in lower resolution areas and can only be vaguely located.