Well let's be honest here we all love a bit of voyeurism

[Topper]

Well there are I understand a number of sites like this, not that I have looked, but I stumbled upon this one the other day. It is said there are millions of cameras set up to monitor the roads worldwide, surveillance of criminals and pickpockets in town centres university campuses etc. Mulitiply the number of cameras for a small town by the number of towns and cities in the world and you are talking hundreds of millions. A number of them are open feeds and this link is to a site where the author Adrian Hayter, has such a program that searches out these open feeds. Whilst regularly updating the feeds to eliminate dead feeds and blocked one's etc, he deliberately removes any feed that displays children, which I applaud.

Whilst I can understand the need for the above cameras and even a company spying on their employees, I cannot for the life of my understand why adults fix these cameras up in their rooms at home and transmit to the world, unless they are unaware they are transmitting or simply do not care.

As can be seen, there are some beautiful places in the world and there are also some very strange people in them.

It feels wrong to watch some of them but yet on the other hand it is absolutely compelling, here is page one of over 450, 16 cams per page, you do the maths

http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/index.php?page=1

 

[Captain Jack]

Yeah I've seen a similar site before - the one which displayed webcams geographically through Google Maps. Not as comprehensive as this though!

 

[Channel Hopper]

Plenty of cities (and regions) will grant the voyeur access to their traffic cameras, but they can be used for other purposes

(tracking last years floods in Queensland for example).

http://www.tmr.qld.gov.au/Traffic-cameras-by-location.aspx

 

[dig deep]

Yes, a local traffic camera could be nice to have in your phone. Else I´ve seen some good ones from Africa watching animals drinking and living.

 

[Topper]

Well this one has certainly got me baffled, cannot for the life of me work out what it is, I presume it is antipodean as it is light in our night and dark during our day.
http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=33407

Some sort of volcanic pond???

 

[Topper]

There a small dish on this cam

http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=176

here is a still in case it is night time

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[Analoguesat]

There a small dish on this cam

http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=176

here is a still in case it is night time

dish.png

Think that one is in the Canaries.

 

[Piltdownpaul]

Few dishes on this one.....

http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=2053

 

[Topper]

For birds (feathered) this one

http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=20800

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[Topper]

Some nice dishes here too

http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=20401


View attachment 53443

 

[Channel Hopper]

Fox/cat cam, including links to other animal streams - ponies, bats, ducks, eagles etc.
labtec1.camstreams.com/

 

[Channel Hopper]

Some nice dishes here too

The Canberra Deep Space Network, links to their site with two 34m dishes under construction.

http://www.cdscc.nasa.gov/Pages/Archive/Webcam/dss35_webcams.html

 

[Topper]

The Canberra Deep Space Network, links to their site with two 34m dishes under construction.

http://www.cdscc.nasa.gov/Pages/Archive/Webcam/dss35_webcams.html

Now that is what I call a dish mount

 

[Analoguesat]

Now that is what I call a dish mount

A couple of fenceposts banged into the ground would work just as well

 

[Channel Hopper]

A couple of fenceposts banged into the ground would work just as well

You wouldn't recommend the 'three tractor tyre' approach ?

 

[PaulR]

You wouldn't recommend the 'three tractor tyre' approach ?

Nah, that's just over engineering!