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MapQuest will now show you where Flock cameras are in your neighborhood (www.engadget.com)
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[–] 94 points 1 day ago* (6 children)

You can help too!!

Check out DeFlock, and by all means, come join us on OpenStreetMap. It looks like about 400–500 cameras have been added in the last few days.

If there's anything I can personally do to help you (yes, you, reading this) get involved with OSM – even just a pep talk – I'll do whatever I can. There are a million different ways you can help, regardless of if you're in Paris reading the WikiHow for heisting the Louvre or stranded in the wilderness using your last five minutes of battery to browse Lemmy.

Source: Reasonably longtime user and contributor.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Unfortunately I really wouldn't trust the numbers on new cameras. In my area most are already mapped and there's a steady stream of misidentified cameras being added. Stuff like DOT and traffic light cameras.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    I think the new companies that are like Flock, but not Flock, are starting to incorporate all the cameras. Those are probably in the Flock system.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Question, because I'm not finding much information on this. Supposedly we can incorporate overlays from OSM into CoMaps that shows Flock camera locations on our routes. Would you have any information on how to do this or a resource that could show me how? Thanks in advance.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    I wish I did. :(

    I've never heard anything about this. In fact, I've never heard of overlays on CoMaps generally. My only guess is that maybe the rumor is related to OsmAnd, which does let you create custom overlays given a URL source.

    I only use CoMaps on desktop, which is to say not very often, so I'm a lot less familiar with it. Sorry!

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    No problem. Thanks for answering. I found something saying that it does work with CoMaps by enabling surveillance poi as a custom overlay in CoMaps and to do that you import that data from openstreetmap. You're probably right that it was for OSMand. I will try and find out more. Thanks again for answering.

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