Adding Surveillance cams to OpenStreet Maps tutorial

Open Street Map surveillance cam - tutorial #

This tutorial will explain how to add surveillance cameras to Open Street Map.

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What is Open Street Map? ##

Open Street Map is a map of the entire world. It can be edited by anyone and can record an extensive set of features. It is basically Wikipedia but as a map. One of the things it can record is the location of surveillance infrastructure such as cameras.

Getting Started ##

This section of the tutorial assumes you don't have an Open Street Map account.

• Go to (https://www.openstreetmap.org)
• Click on the "Sign Up" button
• Enter the required details to set up an account

Navigating ##

This section of the tutorial shows how to get to the part of the world where the surveillance camera is found.

• Click on the "Edit" button in the upper left side of the website screen
• You can click on the walkthrough for help
• The "search features" box is in the left side of the website and useful for navigating
• If you have geographical coordinates, you could enter them in the "search features" box in the format latitude,longitude as decimal degrees [2]

Alternatively ###

• search for the place the camera is in under the "search features" box

Editing ##

This section is shows how to edit the map and add surveillance cameras you know about.

• Click on the "point" option in the upper left corner of the map
• Click on the location the camera is in
• you can click and drag the point as needed

Add Details ##

This shows how to tell people that it is a surveillance camera and provide extra information that might be useful to people.

• Once you add the point you will see a lot of different types of features as well as a search box below the "select feature type" header
• Click on the search box and type "surveillance"
• click on the "surveillance camera option that should appear
• There a a lot of boxes to fill out with different features of the camera, fill out the details according to your knowledge

Breakdown of Different Fields ##

This section is to go over the different options for information to fill out and what they mean.

• Surveillance Kind: What kind of surveillance camera is it? For example: Is it an outside camera? Is it indoors? Is it privately owned? Etc.
• Surveillance Type: What is watching? Basically is it a camera? Is it a guard? is it a license plate reader?
• Camera Type: What type of camera is it? Does it stay on one position? Does it move around? Is it one of those dome cameras that are difficult to see into?
• Camera Mount: What is the camera attached to?
• Direction: Which direction does the camera face? It is measured in degrees where 0 is north
• Surveillance Zone: What type of area is it watching?
• Webcam URL: If it is a webcam, what is the URL the webcam is pointing to?

Do You Have Information Not Covered in These Options? ##

You could end up having extra information about the camera that would be useful to know, but that does not appear as a field. Some extra fields are hidden.

• At the bottom of the screen, just above the "All tags" option, there's a drop down menu for "Add field"
• When you click on it, there are other useful options

Some Possibilities of Extra Fields ##

These fields might be useful to add.

• Sources: possibly for citations
• Level: What floor is the camera found on? 0 is ground level, negative numbers go deeper into the basement floors, positive numbers are above the ground floor.
• Notes: any additional information you find relevant

Some Ideas to Put as Notes ###

• What brand and model is the camera?
• (If mobile) What is the camera's range of motion?
• What is the camera's field of view?
• Do you know about any blind spots?
• Does it only record visible light, or is it a thermal camera?
• Is it processed using facial recognition or AI?
• Does it also record audio?
• Are there more than one entries from the "surveillance kind" field that fit the description? Put the remaining ones here

Edit a Second Time ##

This might be useful if you, for example, find out new information about the camera, or if the camera has been replaced by a different one

• Double click on the point you created
• When you do, a banner saying "edit feature" should appear along with details you entered
• Click on the box just below the "edit feature" header

After You Finish Editing the Camera ##

• Click on the "save" button in the upper right corner of the map
• Continue adding or editing other cameras you found out about

For more information

• https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:surveillance
• https://video.hispagatos.org
• https://www.openstreetmap.org

References

=> [2] decimal degrees (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_degrees)

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