Once again OpenStreetMap for the win but obscured from public view. Though I will give MapQuest credit for proper attribution on the camera data view.

Now do Axon, Motorola.

There is a poject, Surveillance under Surveillance, which has been mapping surveillance cameras for more than 10 years. They are mapped in openstreetmap and anyone can add them.

Surveillance map of Western Europe

Only a small fraction is maped in my western european country.

Canada?

Guys, what happened??

They dont show them over here at all, because we are not a police state

I wonder how many are home Depot parking lots...

I stopped and uninstalled once I saw the subscription model, fuck that. Let's just tag them in OSM and use FOSS

Edit: OK, credit where credit is due, the full-screen SUBSCRIBE TO OUR SHIT for an outrageous price is a "suggestion" with a little no thanks line that you can ignore it with. And while it's kind of a dick move, it doesn't have an unreasonable amount of ads in it ... yet.

It gets my begrudging star of approval based on the ability not to sub.

Also, oddly, it's not using OSM in my area. I did all the OSM in my area and there are roads that only exist here because I put them in, The roads it's using for my hood are wrong. it's missing chunks of road that OSM has never been missing and it's got new, under contstruction roads that are wildly innacurate, and the version of those in OSM were done by me so i don't know where they're getting their streetmaps from but it doesn't look like it's OSM, google, bing, or apple.

Fuck the toronto police btw.

I’ve just checked my area… the distribution doesn’t really make sense. Some of them I already knew about, but there’s a few where roads don’t even exist.

I do think it’s the start of a fun game though; get from point A to point B without passing a security camera. You could gamify it further by requiring driving within the speed limit and penalizing 30 minutes for every surveillance camera passed.

Protest tech for the people. That is refreshing!

Is this only in the app? I haven't found it in the browser version (though I may well be overlooking something).

I got the iphone app a few days ago. I cannot see where you turn on the cameras. Went through all the settings in the app to no avail.

I definitely prefer how Google maps looks, find MapQuest doesn't highlight local vs highways, but fuck google

Where did they get this sort of information from? I want to know how to see what cameras and where are surveiling.

Now do Axon, Motorola.

Sorry if this becomes spammy, but as a reasonably long-time user of and contributor to OpenStreetMap (whose data MapQuest uses), when I see threads like these, I try to offer support to anyone who's interested in/already using/contributing to OpenStreetMap.

If you have any questions whatsoever about things like getting started, how to survey efficiently, what kinds of details you can map, problems you've been having, etc., even if you think they're really dumb, please feel free to ask. At worst, I can try pointing you to a relevant article on the official wiki, and at best, maybe we'll both learn something.

I wouldn't be asking if I didn't believe every single well-meaning contribution is valuable and that yours would be no different.

Anyone have a handle on the pros and cons of Mapquest over Google Maps? Trying to slowly (very slowly) plan a de-Google someday.