Using this man_made=surveillance page as a guide, I’ve started to add the new Charlottetown Police Service CCTV cameras to OpenStreetMap. You can see the position of one here.

I’m adding them each with the following tags:

• man_made = surveillance
• name = eWatch Camera
• operator = Charlottetown Police Service
• surveillance = outdoor
• surveillance:type = camera
• surveillance:zone = town

While the cameras don’t render on the main OpenStreetMap slippy map, they do, however, render on the purpose-built osmcamera.tk site, a project that, helpfully, has released its source code.

You are welcome to join the effort as new cameras sprout up in your neighbourhood; once we’ve reached a critical mass, perhaps we can create a similar Charlottetown-focused resource.