@Suty I sent an email with my recommendations. Neither the 2 cameras that I reported nor my email appears to have been acknowledged. As people start looking for accurate information and local conditions for the approaching winter storm, they won't be able to find it with the Windy webcam layer in Georgia. They'll be looking at sunshine and palm trees when the roads are actually covered in ice or snow.

All of a sudden... Sun December 22nd 2024, nearly all of the GDOT camera images are for massively wrong locations and some of the cameras that used to be here in town are gone. I submitted a couple of them after figuring out where they were supposed to be. I don't know what caused this mess but it looks like the camera pins are in locations where there would be a camera but the images are for locations that are on the other end of the state.
This does appear to be isolated to GDOT cameras as mine and another individual user's cameras are right where they're supposed to be and no issues.

@Michael-Rodriguez-6
Windy doesn't own the cameras but you can click the link that says"provider's website" and see if you can contact the owner of the camera and retrieve the footage you are looking for. Good luck.

Windy dares to go where no weather app has ever gone before.

In the last 24 hours, someone has flooded the US state of GA with DOT traffic cameras on the webcams layer. While it can be helpful to see traffic conditions, most of these are very low quality images, often the cameras are not in service and it's just of some intersection or highway somewhere. It has negatively impacted the usability of the Windy website and app by drowning out the higher quality images that show actual weather.

In my opinion, the DOT cameras, whether they are in Georgia or not should not be shown. There's thousands of them and it makes it hard to see the sort of quality images that people want to see. If people want to see traffic conditions they can go to the DOT website.

Lets be frank. The vast majority of the GDOT cameras are pointed down at roads. Is that the sort of imagery that is of value to Windy users? I would make the case that it isn't. And it's cluttering up the map with low quality irrelevant images that are intended for traffic conditions rather than weather conditions.

Still frames are uploaded to the server here then people can view them through windy. They are further compressed more than likely. If you want a less compressed and also more recent image click on the link for the providers website and go to the direct source of the image.
Windy is a weather platform, not an image sharing or live streaming platform.

@wjg875 I reported this but so far my only response was the same one you just got. I don't know who flooded the platform with those DOT cameras several years ago but they are not only currently all jumbled up in the wrong locations, they also don't comply with the submission guidelines for webcams on Windy. Windy is for weather conditions, not for traffic conditions.

Can someone tell me who is flooding the site with DOT cameras? Those are for monitoring traffic.

@Suty The email was sent to marketa.peskova
I sent a followup yesterday. The followup says the following:

I'm just following up on this. The traffic cameras went away for a while but now they're all back and it's more messed up than ever. It is like someone is doing that mess up the site. There are hundreds of traffic cameras, someone flooded Windy with them and they're all in the wrong place. Plus they are not about weather. Windy is not a traffic monitoring platform. The user that keeps posting all of those should be banned and their webcam suubmissions removed.

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 15:27:00 -0400
The DOT cameras are all restored on Windy and still in massively wrong places hours away from where they are. Whoever is putting those up just needs to be banned already.

@cmesa7 What other changes are there? Location?

@Michael-Rodriguez-6
Windy doesn't own the cameras but you can click the link that says"provider's website" and see if you can contact the owner of the camera and retrieve the footage you are looking for. Good luck.

@etiennehotte I have a love/hate relationship with rain. Having cameras hasn't really changed my opinion of rain but there is definitely some anxiety over lightning and ESD.

@rafael-salvado
Just have the camera upload images periodically to a URL and let Windy have that URL. Then your port is safe and sound.

Still frames are uploaded to the server here then people can view them through windy. They are further compressed more than likely. If you want a less compressed and also more recent image click on the link for the providers website and go to the direct source of the image.
Windy is a weather platform, not an image sharing or live streaming platform.

@SkyDJedi Whart sorts of caameras are you trying to submit? Can you provide an example?

@JacksonRicardo Still frames are uploaded about once an hour. It's entirely possible that there are images up to an hour old. Sometimes a little more. It's not "live" streaming.