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MapQuest will now show you where Flock cameras are in your neighborhood (www.engadget.com)
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[–] 168 points 4 days ago (9 children)

Wow. Bravo mapquest team. I wish they would come on here and speak to their brand renewal.

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  • [–] 101 points 4 days 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 4 days 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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  • [–] 8 points 4 days 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 4 days 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 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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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    • [–] 66 points 4 days ago (11 children)

    TIL that MapQuest still exists

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  • [–] 79 points 4 days ago (9 children)

    Recently in the news for defying Trump's "Lake America" BS.

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  • [–] 21 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    Kinda? They use osm data and osm didn't change the name so neither did map quest.

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    • [–] 19 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    Just installed it and yelled "Holy shit!". I didnt realize it was this bad already. I only thought there were two in my area. This is fkn nuts. We are indeed in a surveillance state.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago*

    This, together with datacenters, will be dystopia. I suggest you spread this information to ordinary people who work in congress, and go on news and talk about it. If you can.

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    • [–] 44 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    W after W from MapQuest.

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    • [–] 30 points 4 days ago (6 children)

    This is dope, BUT Mapquest is just a wrapper for OpenStreetMaps, and this is data that you get for free with OSM.

    Also, after install, Mapquest immediately asks to start tracking your behavior for targeted marketing shit.

    Mapquest probably doesn’t actually give a shit privacy or fighting authoritarians. They just want a cheap and free data set, and the cheapest thing available automatically has LPR data and doesn’t rename bodies of water to “America.”

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    [–] 9 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    If MapQuest could get public transit directions as good as Google, I’d drop them completely.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 days ago* (2 children)

    If MapQuest could keep their location listing up to date I'd 100% make the switch. I went to a small brewery a month ago and it took me to their previous location, which they moved out of...2 years ago

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  • [–] 11 points 3 days ago

    They might be using OpenStreetMap to populate their map. If that's the case, you should consider updating the map yourself! I update OSM all the time when I go to new places or find discrepancies in the map vs. reality.

    If you contribute something like 30 edits per month (sounds like a lot but if you start adding unmarked footpaths, roads or building footprints to the map you can hit 30 edits in a matter of minutes) you can get free OSMand Pro, a map app for Android. Every time I go on a trip I make sure to hit the edit threshold to grant me Pro access for the month. Lots of great features!

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    [–] 22 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    All of them or just the reported ones? Because someone discovered 100k+ undeclared cameras (or so they said) spread around.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 days ago

    The ones reported to OpenStreetMap.

    Mapquest is basically a wrapper for OpenStreetMaps, so they kind of get this for free.

    Also, all of the major flock reporting tools are built on OSM. So basically, if you use Mapquest, you will get data from DeFlock users.

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    • [–] 11 points 4 days ago

    people also need to look at axion/axon , motorola, they definitely are using those now too.

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    [–] 6 points 3 days ago

    Now if only MapQuest could track police down to the last inspector and beat officer.

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    [–] 13 points 4 days ago

    Fuck yeah dude shoutout to mapquest.

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    [–] 13 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    Does this include non-flock brand flock cameras?

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  • [–] 8 points 4 days ago

    They’re using OpenStreetMaps, and OSM has a DB of all the major LPRs. The filter just pulls in all the surveillance cameras in OSM, and if you click on the camera you see the meta data about the reported camera type.

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    [–] 8 points 4 days ago

    Another W for MapQuest

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    [–] 6 points 4 days ago

    https://sparrowmap.com/

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    [–] 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 child)

    Looks like I'm going to be paying for an app possibly for the first time ever. I've had the free version for a while but they've earned my money

    Edit: damn it crashes a lot :(

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    [–] 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    Why can I not find this setting in my app?

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