Database of surveillance camera locations

Question

To get more into django programming I'm planning to create a google maps mashup, which finds routes from A to B, but avoids streets/junctions that cross public surveillance cameras' perspectives. Therfore I will create a database (probably Postgres based, because of its GIS capabilities) containing

• surveillance type (surveillance camera, speed camera, road charge camera, etc.)
• geo position
• timeout (used mainly for speed cameras)

This data will then, of course, be editable freely by the users. To start, however, I will need some data to get running. Is there any such publicly available data base containing (possibly approximate) geo position of surveillance cameras?

Answer 1

The UK has a speed camera database:

http://www.speedcamerasuk.com/locationsdatabase.htm

and each council provides locations of CCTV cameras, a Google search should bring them up:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=cctv+camera+location&btnG=Search&meta=cr%3DcountryUK|countryGB

though they are usually listed by their street name and not a proper geolocation

Answer 2

Do you have any preferences as to location? http://www.mediaeater.com/cameras/ has camera lists for NYC; although they list text locations and not lat/long coordinates, they do publish PDF maps, so those data may be available if you ask nicely.

Answer 3

In openstreetmap are surveillance cameras mapped by the users of the openstreetmap community. This maps are not exhaustive but will cover cameras that are not in other databases. I don't know how good the API is to get the position etc. of this cameras.

Answer 4

You can OpenStreetMap for mapping CCTV surveillance cameras: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dsurveillance

And after you add them CCTV cameras will be visable on this map: http://osmcamera.tk/