European Camera Index

Drivers report enforcement cameras to MapMetrics from the road. The index keeps four classes, named after what the device does. For the 106,646 cameras attributed to a country, the split is:

• Fixed point speed cameras: 74,435
• Red light cameras: 27,430
• Average speed sections: 3,270
• Variable limit cameras: 1,511

In the GeoJSON files each camera is one point with a stable reference, its class and, where a reporter recorded it, the enforced limit, the direction it faces and its active hours. The full field list is in catalog.json.

40 European countries, which together hold 42,762 of the 106,646 attributed cameras. Area is the land area used for the figure in our cartogram article, so the density column matches it. Select a column heading to sort.

OpenStreetMap contributors map enforcement cameras as highway=speed_camera nodes. On 2026-08-27 we counted those nodes inside each country's admin_level=2 boundary with the Overpass API, for 11 European countries, and set them next to the driver-reported snapshot.

The two counts come from different people using different tools: drivers reporting from the road, and mappers editing a public database. In Switzerland, Austria, France, the Netherlands and Germany they land within 10 percent of each other, a useful cross-check for data of this kind. The larger gaps run toward the driver reports in Italy, Belgium, the United Kingdom and Poland, and toward OpenStreetMap in Spain and Portugal.

The snapshot is from May 2024 and the OpenStreetMap counts from August 2026, and neither source contains the other. A ratio near 1 therefore means similar coverage; matching individual cameras would need a point by point comparison, which this page does not attempt. The full comparison, and how cameras are tagged in OpenStreetMap, is in our article on traffic enforcement cameras.

Source. Four collections of driver reports (fixed, section, red light and variable limit), exported from the MapMetrics database. Together they hold 147,864 rows.

Deduplication. The collections are merged and deduplicated on rounded coordinates, which leaves 108,008 unique cameras. It matters most for the variable limit collection, which stores each camera once per speed value: 38,250 rows for 1,528 cameras.

Country attribution. Each camera is matched to a country by point in polygon against ISO 3166-1 country boundaries (the datasets/geo-countries file). 1,362 points fall outside every polygon, mostly on coastlines, and are left out, which gives 106,646 cameras in 106 countries and territories. An earlier pass matched a 107th polygon, the UN buffer zone in Cyprus, which is not a country, so the published files report 106. The catalog row with code CY is labelled Northern Cyprus, following the boundary file, and there is no separate row for the Republic of Cyprus.

OpenStreetMap counts. Nodes tagged highway=speed_camera inside each country's admin_level=2 boundary, counted with the Overpass API on 2026-08-27. Bounding box counts were discarded: a box around France returned 11,170 nodes against 3,928 inside the actual border.

Camera points come as one GeoJSON file per country. The European files are linked from the table above and here; files for the other 62 countries and territories are in the list below.