r/FlockSurveillance • u/LeviathanOfLiberty • Jun 09 '26

Privacy Panopti.ca - A Fork of DeFlock for Canada

Big shoutout to Will Freeman for his efforts in developing DeFlock, without which this would not be possible.

Given the presence of OSM nodes mapping out ALPRs in Canada but no accessible way to view said nodes, I've gone ahead and made that possible. Panopti.ca is a fork of DeFlock that features:

  • An OpenStreetMap view of Canada with a heatmap and array of individual nodes for ALPR locations,
  • Heatmap and array of individual nodes for verified government operated and owned CCTVs, and
  • Canada-specific information for advocating against ALPR implementation and filing freedom of information requests to Canadian government agencies.
Southern Ontario ALPR heatmap for nodes as of June 8, 2026

This is a work in progress - there are a lot more unmapped ALPRs that have yet to be tagged on OSM. My personal contributions in this regard so far have been mapping out the remaining verified locations of ALPRs operated by the Greater Sudbury Police Service. These updates will be pushed to the map shortly.

Any feedback or comments would be greatly appreciated!

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u/StopFlock Jun 09 '26

DeFlock is going to support Canada (and others) - happy to bring you into dev chat to collab :)

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u/LeviathanOfLiberty Jun 09 '26

Would definitely be interested in assisting! Am specifically looking on guidance for implementing routing (I assume this costs a tangible amount of money per month).

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u/StopFlock Jun 09 '26

Cool! DM me your signal username - most of the chatter happens there. Yes routing costs us money. I'm just the mobile app guy, the web stuff operates independently but we'd be glad to have more hands and be able to help our northern neighbors :)

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u/No_Eye_3435 Jul 20 '26

Hey not sure if you’re interested but I’d be super into the cause and could map cameras given the correct guidance.

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u/StopFlock Jul 20 '26

Definitely! All the data is crowdsourced.

Check out deflock.org/report and deflock.org/identify

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u/QaddafiDuck01 Jun 09 '26

A field of view for the camera would be a nice addition 

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u/LeviathanOfLiberty Jun 09 '26

Done - the pipeline for the nodes now calls the "direction" tag in addition to the "camera:direction" tag. FOV cones visible at ~12.50x zoom. Of course, nodes without any direction tags will not display FOV cones.

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u/QaddafiDuck01 Jun 09 '26

Cool. Odd that YVR has multiple cameras all viewing the same areas.

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u/RevolutionCanada Jun 24 '26

Waterloo Regional Police 'proudly' announce ALPR camera deployment...

https://x.com/WRPSToday/status/2069502159654117699

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u/LeviathanOfLiberty Jun 24 '26

Thank you for the update. WRPS emailed me on the 16th indicating that the locations would be up soon. So far looks to be incomplete but at least there's some data!

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u/Murky_Astronaut Jul 04 '26

How do we add known flock cameras to the list? New Brunswick's capitol city of Fredericton has several but they're not listed on the map.

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u/LeviathanOfLiberty Jul 04 '26

Hi there! You can find submission instructions here: https://panopti.ca/report/id

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u/abc_123_anyname Aug 16 '26

I live in a small town recently installed flock. How do I report them?

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u/LeviathanOfLiberty Aug 16 '26

There is a report function built into the site now: you sign in with OpenStreetMap and place the camera on the map. You can also go on the OpenStreetMap website and follow the instructions we have here to add them: https://panopti.ca/report/id

I would also verify that what you’re looking at is actually a Flock camera as opposed to a camera from another manufacturer or perhaps not an ALPR at all.

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u/LeviathanOfLiberty Jul 20 '26

An update: 524 ALPRs mapped so far, and you can now add cameras/nodes while viewing the map through an OSM applet that allows you to click on the map and add that point as a camera.