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Handy flock camera license plate reader map
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I found out you can put Flock cameras in open street map. Now i just need to find an app that gives me the option to route around them.
The 2021 paper OSRM-CCTV: Open-source CCTV-aware routing and navigation system for privacy, anonymity and safety says they published source code at https://github.com/Fuziih but I don't see it there now (though there is a related project called cctv-exposure).
The final published version of the paper seems to be paywalled; it's probably on scihub but there is also a preprint of it here on arxiv.
https://github.com/FNBIP/ghost-route (just 3 commits, from February this year) says it is inspired by the paper and "extended to a production-grade multi-mode threat routing system". It's a node app you run locally (there doesn't appear to be a public instance currently) which would be nice if it could work offline but unfortunately "Offline mode with pre-downloaded OSM tiles" is still on the roadmap and it currently lists "A Mapbox GL JS token (free tier works)" as a requirement (which is probably why there isn't a public instance - someone would need to pay mapbox if they wanted to run it for other people).
I have not tried it; if anyone reading this has or does please post here about how it works!
sounds good on paper, but it cannot be a perfect thing as camera positions cannot really be up to date on any map
Ayup and on top of that, there are mobile ones now. Vehicle mounted. Can't know where those are.
I hate it.
there's also sites that report them to you.