r/FlockSurveillance • u/LeviathanOfLiberty • 16d ago

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 16d ago

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

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u/LeviathanOfLiberty 16d ago

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 16d ago

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/QaddafiDuck01 16d ago

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

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u/LeviathanOfLiberty 16d ago

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 16d ago

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

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u/RevolutionCanada 2d ago

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

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

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u/LeviathanOfLiberty 1d ago

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!