Mapping Surveillance

Increasingly, government and private individuals are placing our public spaces under surveillance. If we are going to roll these efforts back, we have to know where the surveillance devices are.

We setup cctv.masspirates.org to display all surveillance cameras listed on Open Street Map in North America and much of the world. It is updated every hour.

We need your help adding to it and have put together some resources you can use to do so:

How To Map Cameras

• Mapping Cameras with Go Map!! on the iPhone
• Mapping Cameras with Vespucci for Android
• Mapping Cameras with OpenStreetMap's Web UI

Organizing Events

• Holding a Mapping Event
• Using OSM Field Papers. This tutorial allows you to generate papers of maps of an area that you can hand out to people to mark the cameras they find.

Stopping Creeping Surveillance

• Ways to challenge cameras