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
Cameras
Camera — no further information
Fixed cameras
Fixed camera — usually observing a limited area
Panning cameras
Panning camera — usually able to observe various areas
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 authorized persons
Indoor surveillance
Green background — observing an indoor area
Fixed cameras, fixmeDome cameras, fixmeGuards, fixmeAutomatic 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
Public surveillance
outdoor
Outdoor surveillance
indoor
Indoor surveillance
camera
Camera
camera
fixed
Fixed camera
camera
panning
Panning camera
camera
dome
Dome camera
guard
Guard
ALPR
Automatic Licence Plate Recognition
Mandatory to draw a fixed camera's field of view
camera
fixed
0 - 359 (in degrees) or
N / NE / E / SE / S / SW / W / NW
0 - 90 (in degrees)
from a horizontal view to a ground-pointed camera
default: 15°
3 - 12 (in meters)
default: 5m

Examples:
Fixed field of view (direction: 90°, angle: 15°, height: 5m)
direction = 90°
angle = 15°
height = 5m
Fixed field of view (direction: 90°, angle: 15°, height: 10m)
direction = 90°
angle = 15°
height = 10m
Fixed field of view (direction: 90°, angle: 60°, height: 10m)
direction = 90°
angle = 60°
height = 10m
Mandatory to draw a dome camera's field of view
camera
dome
0 - 359 (in degrees) or
N / NE / E / SE / S / SW / W / NW
e.g. for wall-mounted domes
3 - 12 (in meters)
default: 5m

Examples:
Dome field of view (height: 3m)
height = 3m
Dome field of view (height: 5m)
height = 5m
Dome field of view (height: 5m, direction: 45°)
height = 5m
direction = 45°
Optional
bank / building / parking / shop / town / traffic
ceilling / pole / wall
organization or person operating the camera
name of the camera
reference number of the camera
link to an externally hosted image that depicts the tagged object
where to get more info

Visit the following sites about surveillance related topics:

English
[ 1984 Actionday ]
When will you fight back?
[ Ban Facial Recognition ]
Ban Facial Recognition
[ Ban Facial Recognition ]
Ban Facial Recognition at Festivals
[ Ban Facial Recognition ]
Ban Facial Recognition Europe!
[ Electronic Frontier Foundation ]
Street Level Surveillance
[ Every Two Years ]
Help Make Democracy
[ GitHub ]
unsurv
[ NYC Surveillance Camera Project ]
NYC Surveillance Camera Project
[ Reclaim Your Face ]
Reclaim Your Face
[ unsurv ]
unsurv.org
[ Yale University ]
Privacy Lab
French
[ LA QUADRATURE DU NET ]
Internet & Libertés
[ Reclaim Your Face ]
Reclaim Your Face FR
[ SOUS-SURVEILLANCE.NET ]
Carte — Revue de presse — Projet
German
[ AK Vorrat, Ortsgruppe Hannover ]
Videoüberwachung in Hannover
[ AKTION FREIHEIT STATT ANGST ]
Aktion Freiheit statt Angst e.V.
[ Ban Facial Recognition ]
Verbot der Gesichtserkennung in Europa!
[ Benjamin J. Kees ]
Algorithmisches Panopticon
[ dieDatenschützer Rhein-Main ]
Kategoriearchiv: Videoüberwachung
[ EPICENTER.WORKS ]
Stoppt das Überwachungspaket!
[ Reclaim Your Face ]
Reclaim Your Face DE