I'm a frequent contributor to OSM, along with being passionate about individual privacy. Adding Flock cameras to the map has become a new hyperfixation for me. The best part is that when tagged correctly, they appear on deflock.me along with OSM. It's a simple way to help your community know when they're around these dystopian ALPR cameras. Deflock also has an app, although I cannot attest for it - I believe that it dumps the data into OSM too, so it may be better suited for those without OSM experience.

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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Very cool project. The app seems to be open source too. Sadly the web version seems to be very badly coded and just completely freezes for multiple seconds when you zoom in/out while looking around.

[–] Batman@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

If you're open to using a phone there is streetcomplete, which seems less buggy. They focus on more obvious features, house numbers, road surfaces, business hours and such

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've tried adding cameras. They never actually showed up on any map outside my own OSM profile.

[–] nekomancer@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can check this dedicated map https://osmcamera.dihe.de/

[–] infeeeee@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Last camera update from OSM: 2024-04-19T20:12:58Z

It seems something broke there.

I use this one, similar: https://sunders.uber.space/

[–] nekomancer@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Didn't notice that, thanks for link to better map.

[–] infeeeee@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

It seems like both of them are deployments/forks of the same project: https://github.com/khris78/osmcamera

I surveyed a camera yesterday and I could find it on sunders, so it's update mechanism is still working