Average speed cameras in Europe, by country
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Average speed (section control) objects mapped in OpenStreetMap per country extract, next to average speed camera points in the MapAtlas Camera Index and the official figures of six countries. The GeoJSON holds the centre of every average speed relation in Europe.

Article: https://mapatlas.eu/blog/average-speed-cameras-europe
Data date: 2026-09-29
Rows: 50 (one per Geofabrik country extract)

Files
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average-speed-cameras-europe-2026-09-29.csv  (UTF-8, comma separated, header row, empty cell = no value)
average-speed-cameras-europe-2026-09-29.geojson  (points: centre of every relation tagged enforcement=average_speed in the box 34-72°N, 25°W-45°E, Overpass 2026-09-29T21:44:06Z; properties osm_relation_id, osm_url, maxspeed. ODbL, © OpenStreetMap contributors)

Columns
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country_iso                                   ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code
country                                       Country name in English
geofabrik_extract                             Geofabrik extract the counts come from (extracts have a small border buffer)
osm_average_speed_objects                     Objects tagged enforcement=average_speed (nodes, ways, relations)
osm_average_speed_relations                   Of which relations (normally one per section and direction)
osm_average_speed_nodes                       Of which nodes
osm_average_speed_ways                        Of which ways
osm_speed_camera_objects                      Objects tagged highway=speed_camera in the same extract
osm_data_until                                Geofabrik taginfo data timestamp (UTC)
camera_index_average_speed_points_2024_05_21  Average speed camera points in the MapAtlas Camera Index, snapshot 2024-05-21 (count only)
camera_index_all_cameras_2024_05_21           All enforcement cameras in the index for the country
official_count                                Official figure, where a country publishes one
official_unit                                 What the official figure counts
official_source_url                           Source of the official figure
official_as_of                                Date of the official figure (or the date we read the page)
data_date                                     Date of the research run

Sources
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- Geofabrik taginfo: https://taginfo.geofabrik.de/europe/tags/enforcement=average_speed
- Overpass API: rel["enforcement"="average_speed"](34,-25,72,45)
- MapAtlas Camera Index: MapAtlas Camera Index / MapMetrics driver reports, snapshot 2024-05-21 (https://mapatlas.eu/camera-index)
- Official figures: per-row official_source_url

Licence
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- osm_* columns and the GeoJSON: derived from OpenStreetMap, ODbL 1.0 (https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/), © OpenStreetMap contributors (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright).
- camera_index_* columns: MapAtlas, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Counts only; camera locations are not published.
- official_* columns: single figures with their source URL; see the source for its terms.

How to cite
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MapAtlas (2026). Average speed cameras in Europe, by country. https://mapatlas.eu/blog/average-speed-cameras-europe (data date 2026-09-29).

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