About Locate Flock

The site answers one practical question: where are the plate cameras near a given spot, as far as anyone has mapped them? You can search an address on the home page, check what is near you, or browse state by state.

Each place page then adds figures you cannot read off a map: the typical distance to the nearest mapped camera, how much of the area lies close to one, how the cameras are spaced, who is recorded as running them. How it works explains how each one is measured.

It is meant for residents who want to know what is on their own streets, for reporters and researchers who need a number with a method behind it, and for the volunteers who map these cameras and want to see their work put to use.

Every pin comes from OpenStreetMap, where volunteers add the cameras they have seen. The data is updated weekly, and the method page shows the date of the copy in use.

Every count is a minimum. A camera nobody has mapped is not here, and a pin can be out of date or simply wrong.

Locate Flock is built and run by a small team that makes mapping tools.

Today the site carries no ads and has no sponsors. Nobody pays to appear on it or to be left off it.

Locate Flock is independent and not affiliated with any camera maker, Flock Safety included. Nobody on the team works for a camera company or is paid by one.

The name says what the site helps you do. On these pages “Flock” means a camera built by Flock Safety. Cameras from other makers are called by their makers’ names, and one whose maker is not recorded is not counted as anyone’s.

The site takes no side on whether a town should have these cameras. It reports what is mapped and how it was measured, and it offers no advice on getting around a camera. The method page lists what this site will not do.

Use the contact page. For a wrong pin, the quickest fix is in OpenStreetMap itself: corrections explains how.