This page describes how TrafficVision.Live builds and maintains its collection of live traffic cameras and webcams. Our job is to be a fast, reliable tool for watching live traffic cameras and planning your drive, and that depends on every feed coming from a public source published openly by the agency that runs it.
We research public camera feeds and integrate the public data into our app. Live video and images stream directly from each agency to your browser. The agencies and organizations that operate these cameras are the source of truth. TrafficVision.Live is the interface layer that brings them together in one place.
Every camera on TrafficVision.Live comes from a public source. The largest group is government and transportation authorities: state DOTs and 511 systems across the United States, and their equivalents in Canada, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, and dozens of other countries. Alongside those, we cover public networks operated by NASA, NOAA, the National Park Service, port authorities, university research groups, and wildlife and habitat conservancies.
New sources arrive in two ways. Most come from our own research: we look for transport agencies, parks, weather services, and other organizations that publish live cameras, then confirm the operator makes those cameras public and check what each camera shows. The others come from people who write in through our contact page suggesting a network we should cover.
Once a source is added, every camera gets a location and a credit to the agency that runs it. Moving cameras like cruise ships, research vessels, and the International Space Station update their position in real time. Camera details (roadway names, intersections, angles, labels) come from the source or from public mapping data.
If a camera you rely on stops working, or the location, road, direction, or label looks wrong, please tell us through our contact page. Include the camera or the page it appears on, and what looks off.
Agencies and operators can request that we remove a camera through the same contact page. Takedown requests are handled within 48 hours.
The agencies that operate these cameras are the authorities on their own networks. State DOTs and 511 systems are the source of truth for the highways they manage; NASA, NOAA, the National Park Service, and similar organizations are the experts on their own feeds.
TrafficVision.Live complements their work. They publish the cameras; we make it possible to watch live traffic cameras from one fast, modern interface, plan a drive across them, and search across 130+ countries without hopping between hundreds of separate official sites.