Tag:man_made=surveillance
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 man_made = surveillance
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A surveillance camera or other type of surveillance equipment. 
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Status: approved
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A surveillance camera or other types of surveillance equipment. These may be publicly or privately operated, and may be monitoring a public or private space.
How to map
Place a node at the location of the camera (or other surveillance equipment).
Tags used in combination
operator=*– the organization operating the cameras. Note that the organization of interest would be the organization to whom the images belong (specific government, specific enterprise, etc.), for example:operator=Ajuntament de Palmaoroperator=My Enterprise.name=*– For a camera (or other surveillance equipment) which has a name.ref=*– For a camera (or other surveillance equipment) which has a reference number (for example XXX-000).surveillance=*– Whether a location is under surveillance or what type of surveilled area it is.surveillance:type=camera/guard/– What is watching?ALPR/gunshot_detectorsurveillance:zone=town/parking/traffic/shop/bank/building/entrance/nesting_site– Zone of the surveillance.camera:type=*– Type of the camera, e.g.fixed,panning,dome.camera:mount=*– How or where the camera is mounted/fixed.camera:direction=*– Orientation of the camera – specify either a cardinal direction (like N, S, E, W) or an angle in degrees (clockwise from north).electricity=grid/solar/generator– Power source of surveillance device.ups=yesbackup_generator=yes(possible alternative for fuel cells)
Many more detailed tags described at Proposed features/Extended tags for Key:Surveillance.
Software support
Editors
- DeFlock is a dedicated mobile editor for mapping automatic license plate readers (ALPRs).
- MapComplete has a "Surveillance under Surveillance" theme for mapping surveillance cameras.
- PanoptiCity has a form for contributing surveillance cameras to OSM.
Renderers
Surveillance is rendered on:
- Osmcamera forks:
- https://sunders.uber.space - With info pop-ups, even with a live image if URL provided in the data. Source code
- https://sunders.hamburg.ccc.de - Mirror
- https://sunders.intri.cat - Fork of sunders.uber.space. Source code
- https://osmcamera.dihe.de - Data wasn't updated since 2024.
- https://cctv.masspirates.org - Emphasizing Massachusetts and the Northeastern US
- https://sunders.uber.space - With info pop-ups, even with a live image if URL provided in the data. Source code
- https://panopticity.fr/ - Visualize surveillance camera field of view and info. Form to create and edit cameras. Source code
- https://mapcomplete.org/surveillance - Mapcomplete theme, shows cameras with different icons; also a mobile editor
- https://cartocams.com - Shows camera that have a webcam available. Source code
- DeFlock - Shows ALPR (Automatic license-plate recognition) cameras.
- MapQuest (enable Surveillance layer)
Röntgen icons in Map Machine
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camera:type=domecamera:mount=ceiling
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camera:type=domecamera:mount=wall
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Routers
FlockHopper and DeFlock generate routes that avoid ALPRs.
Possible Tagging Mistakes
camera:power=grid/solar/battery_backupcamera:electricity=*camera:ups=yescamera:backup_generator=yes
See also
contact:webcam=*– For the specification of the URL of a webcamhighway=speed_camera– A fixed road-side or overhead speed camera- Relation:enforcement – Tagging speed cameras with direction information
barrier:personnel=*– For places where there are humans that guard a barriersupervised=*– Indicates whether there is a person who supervises the place- Approved features/Surveillance – Original proposal for
man_made=surveillance - Proposed features/Extended tags for Key:Surveillance – Proposal for extended tags
- Proposed features/supervised – Proposal for
supervised=*