Surveillance under Surveillance shows you cameras and guards — watching you — almost everywhere. You can see where they are located and, if the information is available, what type they are, the area they observe, or other interesting facts. Different icons and colors give you a quick overview about the indexed surveillance entries. Click on those icons on the map to get the available information.

Icons

Camera — no further information

Fixed camera — usually observing a limited area

Panning camera — usually able to observe various areas

Dome camera — usually observing a 360° area

Guard — e.g. an employee of a security service

ALPR — Automatic Licence Plate Recognition Colors

Red background — observing a public outdoor area, accessable by everyone

Blue background — observing a private outdoor area, accessable only by authorized persons

Green background — observing an indoor area

Yellow icon — camera or guard marked with a fixme key because it needs further attention

Surveillance under Surveillance uses data from OpenStreetMap contributors that is not visualized on the regular OpenStreetMap site. If you like to add new cameras or guards or if you like to revise existing entries use your existing OSM account or create a new one. Our database is updated once an hour. So it might take a while until your OSM entries are visible on the Surveillance under Surveillance map. These are the most common key/value combinations to describe a surveillance node at OpenStreetMap:

Mandatory to display an icon on the map public

outdoor

indoor

camera

camerafixed

camerapanning

cameradome

guard

ALPR

Mandatory to draw a fixed camera's field of view camera

fixed

0 - 359 (in degrees) orN / NE / E / SE / S / SW / W / NW

0 - 90 (in degrees)from a horizontal view to a ground-pointed cameradefault: 15°

3 - 12 (in meters)default: 5m

Examples:

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