Built a current Flock/ALPR camera KMZ for ATAK — most of the ones floating around are pretty out of date
Built a current Flock/ALPR camera KMZ for ATAK — most of the ones floating around are pretty out of date
I kept running into Flock/ALPR camera overlays for ATAK that were months (or longer) out of date — cameras that have been moved or added since, missing whole regions, etc. The DeFlock dataset gets updated constantly, but most of the KMZ exports people are passing around were generated once and never refreshed.
So I pulled a fresh export and converted it to a clean KMZ:
- 106,283 camera locations, current as of 6/25/2026
- 115,000+ directional FOV cones showing which way each camera is aimed (about 98.6% of the source records had a heading)
- Loads into ATAK, iTAK, or WinTAK as a standard KMZ
- Works offline once imported
- Tap a camera for brand, operator, mount type, and OSM ID
All the underlying data is from OpenStreetMap and the DeFlock project (deflock.org) — they do the actual mapping, I just wrote the conversion and matched the rendering so it looks close to their web map. Shared under the same ODbL license as the source.
One honest heads-up: the full national file is ~250k geometries in a single KMZ, so it's a little slow to load on older Android EUDs. Works fine, just give it a few seconds. If people want lighter state-by-state cuts I can split it.
Plan is to re-export this periodically as the dataset grows so it doesn't go stale like the others. If anyone spots a camera that's missing, add it at deflock.org and it'll roll into the next update.
Happy to answer questions on how it's built or take requests for other regions.
No self promotion-- just don't have a different easy to share a file.