Flock and traffic camera map for anywhere in the US
Type a ZIP code or address to see the Flock license plate readers, other plate readers and other cameras that volunteers have mapped near it, plus live pictures from state traffic cameras where the state shares them.
Set a point to see the cameras near it. Until then the map shows the whole country.
How it works
Set a point with a ZIP code, an address, your location or a click on the map. The page then shows every camera it knows of within 10 miles, and you can narrow that with the distance slider. Distances are straight-line miles worked out in your browser.
- Flock plate readers are cameras tagged as made by Flock Safety in OpenStreetMap, mostly added by volunteers through the DeFlock project.
- Other plate readers are automatic license plate readers from other makers, or with no maker recorded.
- Traffic cameras are state and city road cameras that their agencies share with the public. Click one to see its latest picture, straight from the agency.
- Other mapped cameras are any other surveillance cameras people have added to OpenStreetMap, such as cameras on stores, buildings and parking lots.
Only cameras that are meant to be public are shown. There are no private camera feeds and nothing found by scanning the internet.
Your privacy: a ZIP code is looked up on this site, and "Use my location" asks your browser first. To find OpenStreetMap cameras, the page sends your point to this site's camera lookup, rounded to about half a mile. We do not save it. An address search sends only the words you type to OpenStreetMap's Nominatim search service. Traffic camera pictures load straight from each agency's server, which sees a normal picture request.
Click any camera for a "Street View" button, which opens Google Street View at that spot (facing the way the camera points when that is known), and a "Mapillary" button for free street-level photos. The Satellite switch on the map shows aerial photos instead of the plain map.
Volunteers map plate readers and other cameras, so some are missing and a few may have been taken down. If you know of a camera that is not here, you can add it at deflock.me. New ones show up here within about a week, often sooner. Plate reader and traffic camera lists are refreshed every week.
The cone on a camera shows the way it points when someone recorded it. Cameras without a recorded direction have no cone.
Sources and credits
- Camera locations: © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL), read through the Overpass API.
- Flock camera mapping: the DeFlock community. Plate readers load from a weekly copy of DeFlock's OpenStreetMap plate reader data kept on this site, so they show even when the live lookup is busy.
- ZIP code centers: U.S. Census Bureau ZIP Code Tabulation Areas gazetteer.
- Address search: OpenStreetMap Nominatim.
- Base map: Esri Light Gray Canvas. Satellite photos: Esri World Imagery (Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics, and the GIS User Community).
- Street-level views open on Google Maps and Mapillary.
Traffic cameras and their pictures come from these agencies:
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