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Gathered from everywhere
Public agency camera networks, the Windy catalog, YouTube live geo-search, webcam directories, visitor submissions, and AI research agents that hunt down the obscure ones — the dive-shop cam in Sulawesi, the harbor cam whose only listing is in Icelandic.
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Checked before and after listing
Nothing is listed on trust. A candidate must be live, embeddable and really where it claims to be, and a second model gets a veto. Once listed, every camera is probed on a rolling schedule; frozen frames and dead streams are demoted, and cameras that stay dead are retired.
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Pinned to a place
Every camera carries a location precision. Agency cameras arrive with surveyed coordinates; discovered ones are accepted only when they can be placed within about a kilometer, and the page they came from must agree.