What’s happening downtown?
Just peeked at Peel and Ste-Catherine to see this. Anyone have the story?
Few minutes later:
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Kevin 11:31 on 2020-06-18 Permalink
Suspicious package. Supposedly at the US consulate, but the last time I went to the US consulate it was not in that location.
Blork 11:31 on 2020-06-18 Permalink
CBC Radio says a building was evacuated because of a suspicious package. I didn’t catch the building, but it’s some U.S. thing…
DeWolf 12:12 on 2020-06-18 Permalink
The consulate is now at Ste-Catherine and Stanley, just to the left of the firetrucks in the second photo.
Kate 12:14 on 2020-06-18 Permalink
Apparently so. CBC radio confirms Kevin’s story and mentions the consulate. Thanks all.
JP 12:17 on 2020-06-18 Permalink
Is there a site where we can view the images captured by the camera?
Kate 12:21 on 2020-06-18 Permalink
12:15, the emergency vehicles have all gone.
JP, the city’s traffic cams are all placed on this map. They’re not all working all the time, and many of them are simply pointing at a boring piece of road or highway. But there are some at interesting corners. I’ve got into the habit of looking at a couple of the Ste‑Catherine Street ones, and other downtown ones, since the lockdown. That’s how I spotted this incident at Peel and Ste-Cath.
Quebec 511 is another interface to highway cams.
I don’t think there’s any site that saves static jpegs from these cams.
JP 15:10 on 2020-06-18 Permalink
Thanks Kate,
That’s pretty neat. The camera at Peel and Ste. Catherine does seem to take brighter images than some of the other cameras at other locations.
I looked at a few of the other views on Ste. Catherine…it doesn’t look crowded at all for a warm June afternoon. I haven’t been downtown since early March; though I may go in the next couple of weeks or so, it’s nice to get sort of a live view of what it’s like down there right now.
Kate 16:17 on 2020-06-18 Permalink
Makes me wonder about the possibilities of programming an AI to look at the cameras from time to time and save any shots it finds interesting.
Jonz 16:49 on 2020-06-18 Permalink
The Chinese would be happy to do that for you, and if not them then the Americans and the Israelis, followed by….
Dhomas 18:41 on 2020-06-18 Permalink
@Jonz Google has already done it. They put the technology into a standalone camera:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Clips
It was interesting, but not a success. Probably because of the creep factor.
Jonz 19:02 on 2020-06-18 Permalink
Lots of creeps all over the place, no shortage of those. I saw a YouTube video a couple of days ago about a company bragging it was putting real-time face recognition software into cameras mounted on sports billboards (you hold your gaze long enough so they get a clear view). That’s face though, and Kate is talking about situational recognition. I don’t know what the Google software really did but I’m sure it’s a hot area of software development. No prob – lots of red vehicles with big numbers on them.