Tag:highway=red_light_camera
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 highway = red_light_camera
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| A fixed road-side or overhead red light enforcement camera. |
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| Status: in use |
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A fixed road-side or overhead red light enforcement camera. Consider using the enforcement relation to provide more information about the red light camera.
How to map
Create a node and add highway=red_light_camera
- This node is located:
- on the highway, next to where the actual red light camera is, or
- at the actual position of the camera next to the highway with an enforcement relation.
Tags used in combination
direction=*– to specify the way the speed camera faces, usually in degrees or sometimes with cardinal directions.colour=*– The colour associated with the objectref=*– reference number of the device
Additional information or more complex setups can be stored in enforcement relation.
Possible Synonyms
- As of October 2026, the most common tagging for red light cameras is
man_made=surveillance+surveillance=red_light+surveillance:type=camera - In the US, red light cameras are often tagged
man_made=surveillance+surveillance:type=cameraorsurveillance:type=ALPR - In Europe, red light cameras are often combined with speed cameras and are tagged instead as
highway=speed_camera+note=Red light camera
Rendering
An icon could be displayed either on the road, or on all affected ways, a little off the road, or on the traffic signals themselves.
See also
surveillance:type=ALPR- A camera designed to record license plate identifiers of passing vehicular traffichighway=speed_camera– A camera designed to enforce speed limit restrictions- Relation:enforcement – To add information about which directions traffic is affected in
man_made=surveillance– A surveillance camera or other type of surveillance equipment