what this is about

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
Fixed cameras
Fixed camera — usually observing a limited area
Dome cameras
Dome camera — usually observing a 360° area
Guards
Guard — e.g. an employee of a security service
Automatic Licence Plate Recognition
ALPR — Automatic Licence Plate Recognition
Colors
Public surveillance
Red background — observing a public outdoor area, accessable by everyone
Outdoor surveillance
Blue background — observing a private outdoor area, accessable only by autherized persons
Indoor surveillance
Green background — observing an indoor area
Fixed cameras, fixme Dome cameras, fixme Guards, fixme Automatic Licence Plate Recognition, fixme
Yellow icon — camera or guard marked with a fixme key because it needs further attention
how to participate

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 surveillance
Outdoor surveillance
Indoor surveillance
surveillance:type
camera:type
camera
fixed / panning
Fixed camera
surveillance:type
camera:type
camera
dome
Dome camera
Guard
Automatic Licence Plate Recognition
Mandatory to draw camera's field of view

Examples:
Field of view (direction: 90°, angle: 15°, height: 5m)
Field of view (direction: 90°, angle: 15°, height: 10m)
Field of view (direction: 90°, angle: 60°, height: 10m)
direction = 90°
angle = 15°
height = 5m
direction = 90°
angle = 15°
height = 10m
direction = 90°
angle = 60°
height = 10m
Optional



Besides contributing to Openstreetmap feel free to help support hosting and development costs on Patreon.

where to get more info

Visit the following sites about surveillance related topics:

English
Secure Connection
[ 1984 Actionday ]
When will you fight back?
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[ Electronic Frontier Foundation ]
Street Level Surveillance
Insecure Connection!
Insecure Connection!
Secure Connection
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[ 2016-06-27 | sucuri BLOG ]
Large CCTV Botnet Leveraged in DDoS Attacks
Secure Connection
German
Insecure Connection!
[ AK Überwachung ]
Arbeitskreis gegen Überwachung
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[ AK Vorrat, Ortsgruppe Hannover ]
Videoüberwachung in Hannover
Secure Connection
[ dieDatenschützer Rhein-Main ]
Kategoriearchiv: Videoüberwachung
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[ 2016-07-10 | netzpolitik.org ]
Eine Weltkarte der Videoüberwachung
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Insecure Connection!
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[ 2016-06-29 | netzpolitik.org ]
Berlin: Ausweitung der Videoüberwachung vom Tisch
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