Webcams show same image twice, but once stretched and blurry in the background
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Hello everyone,
When using the webcam API's camera feeds that have a square image have the same image again behind it, stretched and blurry. This is really weird and unnecessary. Especially when embedding the images somewhere.
Example:
Highlighted the unnecessary/duplicated area:
I have access to the WSDOT cameras as well and this bug is not in the original data feed, so it looks like a bug on Windy's side. Any chance this can get resolved? Or is there a way to query the API differently?
In some cases I can workaround this using a different data feed, but in other regions where I don't have that option this problem persists.
The same issue can be observed on the website: https://www.windy.com/-Webcams/United-States/West-Virginia/Pleasant-Valley/US-97-at-MP-27-1:-Satus-Pass/webcams/1459260569?45.983,-120.860,11
or also when accessing a camera directly:
https://images-webcams.windy.com/80/1542834880/current/thumbnail/1542834880.jpg -
@skofgar Hello, the webcam displays like this due to cropping. I have changed the settings and the webcam display correctly now.
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Hello @korina, thanks a lot for fixing it. This issue applies to a lot of Washington Department of Transportation (WSDOT) cameras and Oregon (ODOT) as well?
a few more examples are here:
- https://www.windy.com/-Webcams/United-States/Ohio/Cleveland/US-97-at-MP-34-5:-Yakima-County-Line/webcams/1459260571?46.038,-120.990,10
- https://www.windy.com/-Webcams/United-States/Oregon/Shaniko/US97-at-Mt-Identifier/webcams/1506546883?44.991,-121.262,10
Is it possible to apply these cropping fixes in bulk across both data providers.
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To clarify, I think a few hundred cameras by ODOT and WSDOT have this problem.
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@skofgar Hello, after looking into this matter, we do not plan to change the cropping at the moment as it could cause some issues with other webcams.
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Hello @korina, thanks for letting me know. That's really unfortunate, because it makes it really hard for people to view those cameras.
Is there a better workaround/solution for this?
For example is there a parameter in the API to request a non-cropped version or at least an attribute that would inform whether the image we're receiving is cropped?
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@skofgar Hello, there is currently no workaround. Also we do not have an option to filter out cropped webcams.
