How close is the nearest license plate camera in Altoona, IA?

Half of the points sampled inside Altoona are closer to a mapped camera than 0.3 miles, and half are farther: that median is the typical distance. Nine sampled points in ten are within 0.6 miles of one.

• Altoona: typical distance0.3 miles
• Median of the 24 places measured in Iowa0.8 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Altoona: nine points in ten are within0.6 miles

Across the 24 places measured in Iowa, the median typical distance is 0.8 miles. Across the 2,395 places measured nationwide, it is 0.5 miles. The typical distance in Altoona is shorter than both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera39% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera81% of the area

Both figures are shares of the area inside the boundary of Altoona: the part that lies within 400 metres (about a quarter mile) and within 800 metres (about half a mile) of a mapped camera, wherever that camera stands. They describe distance to a pin and nothing else. In the median place measured nationwide, 46% of the area inside the boundary lies within half a mile of a mapped camera.

Median gap

400 feet

Middle half of the gaps

150 feet to 1,000 feet

Within 200 feet of another

24 of 62 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Altoona to the nearest other one in Altoona. Half of the gaps are shorter than 400 feet, and the middle half run from 150 feet to 1,000 feet. In Altoona, 24 of 62 cameras stand within 200 feet (60 metres) of another, which usually means two on one pole or a group at one intersection.

A direction is recorded for 97% of the cameras here (60 of 62 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is west, with 12 cameras. Because 1 camera carries two directions and is counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 61 directions from 60 cameras. A direction of exactly 0 is treated as not recorded, because that value is often left on a pin nobody set; that leaves out 2 cameras here.

The direction is the compass bearing a mapper noted for the camera, as it stood when they looked.

In Altoona, 37 of 62 mapped cameras carry an operator tag, which is 60% of the cameras here.

• Public agency35 cameras
• Private2 cameras
• Camera company0 cameras
• Other0 cameras
• Not recorded25 cameras

The kinds are read from the operator names mappers typed. A name is counted as private only when it plainly belongs to a business, an association or another private owner; a name the rules cannot place is counted as other; and where no operator is recorded the camera is not assumed to be anybody’s. The method page sets out how a name is sorted into a kind.

For every 10,000 residents, Altoona has 31.7 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 19,565 residents there. Among the places measured nationwide, the median is 8.1 mapped cameras for every 10,000 residents.

Other places with a mapped camera within 25 miles of Altoona, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Pleasant Hill, IA4.7 miles south, 6 mapped camerasShow Pleasant Hill on the map
• Ankeny, IA8.5 miles northwest, 16 mapped camerasShow Ankeny on the map
• Des Moines, IA8.7 miles southwest, 11 mapped camerasShow Des Moines on the map
• Carlisle, IA9.6 miles south, 1 mapped cameraShow Carlisle on the map
• Windsor Heights, IA12.5 miles west, 1 mapped cameraShow Windsor Heights on the map
• Johnston, IA13 miles west, 18 mapped camerasShow Johnston on the map
• Polk City, IA14.9 miles northwest, 3 mapped camerasShow Polk City on the map
• Norwalk, IA15.6 miles southwest, 5 mapped camerasShow Norwalk on the map
• West Des Moines, IA17 miles southwest, 69 mapped cameras

The distance and area figures for Altoona come from 3,449 sample points, laid 100 metres apart across the area inside its boundary.

Each distance is a straight line from a sample point to the nearest mapped camera of any make, and that camera can stand outside the boundary. The counts are floors: a camera nobody has added to OpenStreetMap is not on this page, and a pin can be out of date.

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