Tag:man_made=surveillance
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| A surveillance camera or other type of surveillance equipment. |
| Group: man made |
| Used on these elements |
| Useful combination |
| Status: approved |
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A surveillance camera or other types of surveillance equipment. These may be publicly or privately operated, and may be monitoring a public or private space.
How to map
Place a node
at the location of the camera (or other surveillance equipment).
Tags used in combination
operator=*– the organization operating the cameras. Note that the organization of interest would be the organization to whom the images belong (specific government, specific enterprise, etc.), for example:operator=Ajuntament de Palmaoroperator=My Enterprise.name=*– For a camera (or other surveillance equipment) which has a name.ref=*– For a camera (or other surveillance equipment) which has a reference number (for example XXX-000).surveillance=*– Whether a location is under surveillance or what type of surveilled area it is.surveillance:type=camera/guard/ALPR/gunshot_detector– What is watching? (ALPR = Automatic license plate recognition, see
Automatic number-plate recognition.)surveillance:zone=town/parking/traffic/shop/bank/building/entrance/nesting_site– Zone of the surveillance.camera:type=*– Type of the camera, e.g.fixed,panning,dome.camera:mount=*– How or where the camera is mounted/fixed.camera:direction=*– Orientation of the camera – specify either a cardinal direction (like N, S, E, W) or an angle in degrees (clockwise from north).
Many more detailed tags described at Proposed features/Extended tags for Key:Surveillance.
Rendering
Surveillance is rendered on:
- https://sunders.uber.space – With info pop-ups, even with a live image if URL provided in the data
- https://osmcamera.dihe.de
- https://cctv.masspirates.org – Emphasizing Massachusetts and the Northeastern US
- https://mapcomplete.osm.be/surveillance – Shows cameras with different icons; also a mobile editor
- https://cartocams.com - Shows camera that have a webcam available
- https://deflock.me - Shows ALPR (Automatic license-plate recognition) cameras
Röntgen icons in Map Machine
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camera:type=domecamera:mount=ceiling
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camera:type=domecamera:mount=wall
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See also
contact:webcam=*– For the specification of the URL of a webcamhighway=speed_camera– A fixed road-side or overhead speed camera- Relation:enforcement – Tagging speed cameras with direction information
barrier:personnel=*– For places where there are humans that guard a barriersupervised=*– Indicates whether there is a person who supervises the place- Approved features/Surveillance – Original proposal for
man_made= - Proposed features/Extended tags for Key:Surveillance – Proposal for extended tags
- Proposed features/supervised – Proposal for
supervised=*
