Open-Loop: A project to document video surveillance in Chicago’s Loop
Perhaps you’ve heard that Chicago’s “Loop” is heavily monitored by video, with Mayor Daley a big proponent of video surveillance. I personally don’t care if cameras are watching me leave work or go get a falafel sandwich for lunch. But the folks at Open-Loop do, and they’ve got an interesting website set up with the goal of documenting the location of every surveillance camera in the Loop (link via sotto.org). It doesn’t quite cover me, as I work in the “downtown” area (i.e. north of the Chicago River), not the “Loop” area (the distinction is fuzzy). Still, the project and its map are certainly interesting.
May 9th, 2005 at 7:17 pm
Open-Loop.org - Mapping Chicago’s Surveillance Cameras
A fellow Chicagoan notes a project indexing and mapping the growing number of cameras in Chicago. I also blogged previously on the Manhattan Project which is very similar.
September 28th, 2007 at 5:58 pm
www.open-loop.org no longer seems to be working. Anyone know what happened? Is the project gone, or just moved?
June 28th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
I can’t find it either, or anything similar for that matter. The closest thing is a hand-drawn map from someone’s blog a years back. Makes you wonder where it went and why no one has commented on it being “taken down” …