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Please see the article below. I would say it is hard to enforce and causes all sorts of privacy related issues. Anyway - be warned. Since January 10th this year, it has become illegal to use a PND in Switzerland, to warn of safety cameras and mobile speed surveillance locations.
The Swiss police are currently actively searching for navigational systems with any type of camera pre-warning that are being used while driving. When such a device is found, the device is confiscated and destroyed and the motorist can also expect a fine. Not only has the use of these warning devices been banned, but their production, import or sale has also become illegal. Swiss road authority ASTRA on January 8th. This legislation has led to a lot of commotion and questions in both Switzerland and abroad. Owners of PND’s want to know exactly which units are now outlawed, and under what conditions the new measures can be enforced.
In addition, they are completely independent of vehicle, sat nav or smartphone. Easy to install and long battery life (e.g. POI Pilot 6000 8-10 hours); Easy updates via POIbase software; Warning of fixed ad potential mobile speed cameras (as of POI Pilot 5000 via voice output); Warning of danger spots and other POIs; Many.
In short: the regulations apply to all systems, of all types which can enable speed camera warnings. ASTRA has released a with answers to frequently asked questions. As if things weren’t bad enough, the Swiss government have already ordered shopkeepers to stop selling the navigational systems that now appear to be illegal. Retailers have received a list of banned systems, which includes devices by TomTom, Garmin, Mio, Navman, Medion, Route66, Packard Bell, Sony and ViaMichelin where the camera positions are included. Investigations are currently underway to determine whether these new rules are actually legal under the Swiss justice system. TomTom sent us the following reaction: “We are aware that the Federal Highways Department (ASTRA) has issued a statement related to GPS navigation and safety camera alerts.
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However, TomTom develops all of its products and services with ease of use and safety as a priority and we believe that our safety camera solution enhances road safety and security in Switzerland. We believe our safety camera services are fully legal to use and to sell.
As a matter of course however, we are working with ASTRA to fully understand their view on the current legal situation.” Foreigners on holiday in Switzerland, or who are merely passing through the country, will now have to be very careful. The use of navigational devices itself has not been made illegal, nor have systems which can determine the position of speed cameras. It’s just that this data cannot be used when on Swiss soil, and the navigational system may not contain data on cameras. Most gps units have proximity warnings that can either sound an alarm when you come with a defined distance of the point, or away from the point.
The latter is useful for when you are dragging anchor, or trying to put some space between you and the ugly girl at the bar. You can of course defined these yourself either as Waypoints or Points of Interest. A key point here is (in the Garmin world at least) that Waypoints are part of the user application data, and POI databases are considered part of the map and an element of a database.
This would be key in assessing your use of the speed camera 'data'. Incidentally I AM one of those holiday makers who is looking to buy a Nat Sav system to tour Europe in hired cars with. From recent research into 'which one to buy', it seems as though the radar device location warnings supplied by the mainstream companies (eg TomTom, Garmin, etc) now do NOT include Switzerland. IF this is really the case, would such a GPS device (has radar/speed camera location warnings for UK/France/etc, but NOT for Switzerland) still be confiscated if I were to drive through Switzerland with it?? Unfortunately I don't read German or French or Italian fluently, so have had to rely on the fairly garbled 'Yahoo Babel Fish' translations of the ASTRA FAQ web page.
Would therefore be most grateful for any clearer insight into this before I buy! Hi, I am buying a car this christmas and I was planning to buy a tomtom GPS along, I am a bit concerned now, which model or brand (itself) would be legal to buy in switzerland, I think in various maps websites itself there are indications about RADAR positions on motorways.so how come having such indications in GPS could be illegal Appreciate if some one can advise which brand of GPS is legal to buy. In order to be placed on the correct position and place to avoid fine (again due for incorrect position in windscreen). Thanks Harish. All are legal to buy in Switzerland.
The GPS companies have succumbed to Swiss law and even if you buy a GPS with speed camera warning in another country it will not have the location of Swiss cameras on it. I recently purchased a Garmin Nuvi and it has the camera databases for France and other countries on it, but not Switzerland.
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The Swiss police do not care if you have speed camera warnings for other countries providing there is none for Switzerland stored. Should you want to get a databse of Swiss cameras, google might just find you what your looking for. You can put them into your GPS as points of interest with a proximity warning. And hopefully plod should be non the wiser as he knows that the manufacturers are not supplying swiss camera databases anymore.