How do I make a gpx file for location of Flock surveillance cameras?

Hello,

I am new OSM, but I have heard that you can turn coordinates or objects/routes into a gpx file which can be downloaded to your OSM app and displayed therein. I do not know how to do this.

Can anyone provide, at least, basic instructions for how to make a custom object/coordinate gpx file from the Open Street maps site? (Or from Deflock.me, if you happen to know about that).

I know there is an open question of how to categorize the Flock / other cameras in the same network so there may not be one tag to use for that purpose, in which case I’ll settle for making a manual custom gpx. Thank you.

A method could be to run this Overpass query: overpass turbo
Then click Export > GPX [Download]
You would miss some values (around 1300) but get most of them (17190)

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DeFlock.me pulls from OSM so you can make an overpass query for surveillance:type=ALPR. DeFlock - ALPR Database

I made a query that gets the results within a bounding box, and uses wildcards to get all results that are manufacturer= any value containing Flock, case insensitive. overpass turbo

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Thank you for that idea. I ran your query and saw quick results, but only in a small area. Is it limited to that zone or was that a misunderstanding on my part? How would you expand this to get all Flock cams regardless of how “flock” was tagged?

That’s an incredible pull, thank you! By chance, would you be able to use a wildcard like the other reply here from bijsgohsdacu in order to include all the cameras from DeFlock which hace “flock” in their name/manufacturer?

My apologies, I’m not exactly 100% on the coding here and don’t know how to modify it.

You just need to remove the bbox part. overpass turbo

I also made the timeout longer. Interestingly there’s also some in Belgium.

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Oh dear, not Belgium, too… Anyone there will have to keep an eye out for more.

Anyway, thank you so much, this was super helpful!