Near me
Which license plate cameras are near me?
Press “Use my location” or type an address, and this page lists the mapped license plate cameras closest to that spot: how far away each one is, which way it lies, and how many stand within a quarter mile, half a mile and a mile.
The list takes in cameras of every maker. Nationwide, 115,332 of 143,570 mapped cameras are recorded as made by Flock Safety, 21,472 as other makers and 6,766 with no maker recorded.
Check a spot
Where you are now
Your browser asks you first. The position it gives stays on this device.
What the result shows
- How many mapped cameras stand within a quarter mile, half a mile and a mile of the spot.
- The 10 nearest, each with its distance, its compass direction from the spot, its recorded maker and, where a mapper noted one, the heading it points along.
- A plot of where they stand around the spot, drawn to scale.
How the result is worked out
Each distance is a straight line from your spot to the point where the camera is mapped. It is not the distance by road, and a pin can sit a little way from the real pole.
Your browser fetches the camera data for the squares of the map around the spot and does the measuring itself. It starts with the nine squares around you and widens the search, a ring of squares at a time, until it is certain that no nearer camera lies outside what it has read. It stops looking at 25 miles.
The compass direction given for a camera is the direction from your spot to the camera. Where a mapper has recorded which way a camera points, the page also says whether that heading runs roughly toward your spot, away from it or across. A heading of exactly 0 is left out: zero means north, but it is also what a camera is left with when nobody set a heading at all.
The camera data was built on and is updated weekly. Every count is a minimum: the page can only list cameras that volunteers have added to OpenStreetMap, and a mapped camera may since have been taken down. How it works sets out the full method.
What this page does with your location
- Your location stays on your device. “Use my location” gets your coordinates from your browser, which asks you first. The page measures with them where it runs, in your browser. They are not sent to us, not put in the page address and not passed to analytics.
- Your browser downloads map data for the area. To find the cameras, it fetches the camera data for the squares of the map around the spot from this site. Each square is a few miles across, so whoever serves the files can tell roughly which area was asked for, along with your IP address.
- An address you type is sent to a geocoder. Towns and states on this site’s list are suggested as you type; pick one and what you typed stays in your browser, while the camera data around that place comes from this site. Anything else you submit, such as a street address or a ZIP code, goes to Photon, an address lookup service run by Komoot, which turns it into coordinates and sees your IP address.
The privacy page covers the rest of the site.
Questions about this page
Does this page send my location to anyone?
No. Your browser hands your coordinates to this page, and the page works out the distances on your own device. To do that, your browser downloads camera data for the area around you from this site, so the server can tell roughly which part of the map was asked for. An address you type is handled differently: when you submit it, the text goes to an address lookup service, which turns it into coordinates.
Why is a camera I have seen missing from the list?
The list holds the cameras that volunteers have added to OpenStreetMap, and nothing else. A camera nobody has mapped is not in it, which is why every count on this page is a minimum. A camera added to OpenStreetMap today shows up here after the next refresh of the data, which runs once a week.
What does a camera’s recorded heading tell me?
It is the compass bearing a mapper recorded for the way the camera points. This page compares it with the direction from the camera to your spot, and says whether the heading points roughly toward the spot, away from it or across. It is one mapper’s observation: it does not say what the camera captures, and many cameras have no heading recorded at all.
Other ways to look
- Browse by state
Every state with mapped cameras, and the towns in it that have their own locator page.
- How it works
Where the pins come from, how each figure on this site is measured, and how a wrong pin gets fixed.