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Plate camera map and traffic cams

Maps, cameras and license plate readers

See where license plate cameras are, watch live traffic cameras, look at dated street-level photos, read the public posts shared at a spot, and work out when a photo was taken from its shadows. Paste coordinates to open every map at that place.

Picked and checked by a licensed private investigator. Updated October 2026.

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Pick one to see the lookups for it, or paste your own above.

14 tools, free ones first

Each one opens the tool's own site. Free tools cost nothing; freemium tools show some results free and charge for the rest. Licensed PI items need a licensed investigator.

Free 12

FHWA Traffic InformationEvery state's 511 site, most with live DOT traffic camerasfhwa.dot.gov EarthCamPublic live webcamsearthcam.com Google Street ViewDated street-level photos (history slider)google.com SunCalcSun position and shadow direction for any place, date and time; checks when a photo was takensuncalc.org MapillaryCrowdsourced street-level photos, often newermapillary.com Snap MapPublic Snapchat posts on a live map by locationmap.snapchat.com Instagram location pagesBrowse public posts tagged at a placeinstagram.com WiGLEMapped Wi-Fi network names by locationwigle.net DeFlockCrowdsourced map of license plate camera locationsdeflock.me Have I Been FlockedWas a plate searched, per audit logs from records requestshaveibeenflocked.com Flock Transparency PortalsAn agency's camera count, policy and search audit (example: Okaloosa County)transparency.flocksafety.com Atlas of SurveillanceWhich agencies use which surveillance techatlasofsurveillance.org

Freemium 1

BroadcastifyLive police and fire scanner feeds; archives paidbroadcastify.com

Licensed PI 1

Licensed investigator service: License plate sighting historyNeeds a licensed PI

What to expect

What you can find for free

Crowdsourced locations of Flock and other license plate cameras
Live state DOT traffic cameras, through each state's 511 site
Street View history and newer crowdsourced street photos
Public Snapchat and X posts shared at a spot, by location
The sun's position and shadow direction for any place and time
Which police agencies use which surveillance technology

Where free tools stop

Flock cameras have no public live feed and no official map. Records of where and when a plate was photographed come from commercial plate-reader data, which licensed investigators can use only for a permitted purpose.

Tips

Paste a spot's coordinates to open Snap Map and X's location search there. People post from where they are, so a place often has public photos and video tied to it.
Some agencies publish Flock transparency portals listing their camera count, policy and search audit.
On Google Street View, the date in the corner opens older photos of the same spot.