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Camera vision
What each camera points at. Zoom in anywhere: every cone is a camera's view.
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Camera vision
There is no public live feed from a Flock camera: the images go to the police department or business that owns it, and are searched there. What can be shown is where each camera is and which way it points. On this map every camera with a recorded direction draws a cone along the road it watches — roughly what it sees.
It opens on downtown Pittsburgh, one of the densest spots in the country for cameras with known directions. Drag, zoom, or press the locate button to go to your own street. Tap any camera for its make and the compass direction it faces.
Every way to see the cameras
- 01All camerasEvery license plate camera reported on OpenStreetMap.
- 02Camera visionWhat each camera points at. Zoom in anywhere: every cone is a camera's view.
- 03Heat mapWhere cameras cluster. Brighter means more cameras close together.
- 043D skylineCamera density as columns. Taller means more cameras in that area.
- 05New this monthCameras newly reported in the last 60 days, appearing in the order they were mapped.
- 06Sharing networkWhich agencies can search each other's plate data. Each burst is one agency's list.
- 07Per capita, 3DEvery county, coloured by cameras per 10,000 residents; taller means more cameras.
- 08Speed camerasSpeed and red-light cameras, in the same neon.
About this map
- Is there a live Flock camera view?
- Not for the public. Flock cameras photograph passing vehicles and send the images to their owner's account; agencies search them there. Some agencies publish counts on a transparency portal, but never the images.
- How accurate are the cones?
- The direction comes from the person who mapped the camera; about 88% of mapped cameras have one. The cone shows the direction, not the exact range: plate readers are usually aimed at one or two lanes, tens of metres out.
- Why do some cameras have no cone?
- Nobody recorded which way they face yet. You can add it when you report a camera, and it will show here after the next daily update.
Camera locations © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Agency sharing data from agencies’ own Flock transparency portals, collected by EyesOnFlock.com (CC BY-SA 4.0). Population: US Census Bureau. Basemap: OpenFreeMap.