How close is the nearest license plate camera in Albany, NY?

Half of the points sampled inside Albany 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 0.7 miles of one.

• Albany: typical distance0.3 miles
• Median of the 57 places measured in New York0.4 miles
• Median of the 2,395 places measured nationwide0.5 miles
• Albany: nine points in ten are within0.7 miles

Across the 57 places measured in New York, the median typical distance is 0.4 miles. Across the 2,395 places measured nationwide, it is 0.5 miles. The typical distance in Albany is shorter than both.

• Within a quarter mile of a mapped camera34% of the area
• Within half a mile of a mapped camera76% of the area

Both figures are shares of the area inside the boundary of Albany: 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

600 feet

Middle half of the gaps

50 feet to 0.3 miles

Within 200 feet of another

22 of 69 cameras

The gap is the straight-line distance from each mapped camera in Albany to the nearest other one in Albany. Half of the gaps are shorter than 600 feet, and the middle half run from 50 feet to 0.3 miles. In Albany, 22 of 69 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 88% of the cameras here (61 of 69 cameras).

The most common recorded direction is south, with 13 cameras. Because 4 cameras carry two directions and are counted once in each, the eight counts add up to 65 directions from 61 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 4 cameras here.

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

For every 10,000 residents, Albany has 7 mapped cameras. The 2020 Census counted 99,224 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 Albany, the nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the places’ centre points.

• Roessleville, NY2.1 miles north, 2 mapped camerasShow Roessleville on the map
• Rensselaer, NY3.6 miles east, 8 mapped camerasShow Rensselaer on the map
• Colonie, NY4.1 miles northwest, 5 mapped camerasShow Colonie on the map
• Westmere, NY4.1 miles west, 6 mapped camerasShow Westmere on the map
• Hampton Manor, NY4.8 miles southeast, 2 mapped camerasShow Hampton Manor on the map
• Latham, NY5.8 miles northeast, 4 mapped camerasShow Latham on the map
• Watervliet, NY6.1 miles northeast, 8 mapped camerasShow Watervliet on the map
• East Greenbush, NY6.8 miles southeast, 1 mapped cameraShow East Greenbush on the map

The distance and area figures for Albany come from 5,662 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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