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Heat map
Where cameras cluster. Brighter means more cameras close together.
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Heat map
The heat map turns 150,000 camera locations into density: dim blue where cameras are spread out, white-hot where many sit close together. Zoom in and the heat sharpens into corridors and intersections.
Clusters follow people and roads, but not only: some states and suburbs have far more cameras per resident than others. The Per capita view, two presses of Next away, shows that comparison county by county.
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
- Where are the most Flock cameras?
- In raw numbers, the big metro areas: Los Angeles, Houston, Atlanta, Dallas–Fort Worth, Chicago and their suburbs. Per resident, smaller places in Georgia, Texas and the Midwest often lead.
- Does a dark area mean there are no cameras?
- It means none have been reported there. Rural areas are mapped less, so the heat map shows reporting as well as cameras.
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.