What do the camera types mean?
Live video
Moving pictures as they happen. Press Play and you watch the camera live, straight from its owner (road agencies, observatories, camera owners). 1,291 of them (Taiwan's freeways) arrive as fast frames: several pictures a second, no sound.
3,448 on the map now · show them
YouTube live
A live stream on YouTube, shown in YouTube's own player. Some have sound. YouTube may show its own ads.
96 on the map now · show them
Video clip
A short recorded video loop, a few seconds long, that the provider replaces every few minutes (for example London's TfL JamCams). Moving, but not live.
809 on the map now · show them
Still image
A photo the camera takes every 2–10 minutes. We show the newest one and refresh it on its own schedule. No video.
16,358 on the map now · show them
Provider player
The provider's own player, for example Windy.com with today's timelapse and, where the owner streams one, a live view.
0 on the map now
Every camera also shows its status: “Live now” for live video that is playing, “Working” for still images and clips that are updating, “Intermittent” and “Offline” when it is not. Nothing is recorded or re-hosted by LiveLocation: each camera plays straight from its owner.
What is the difference between live video, video clips and still images?
Live video moves as it happens: press Play and you watch the camera now (YouTube live streams play in YouTube’s player). A video clip is a short recorded loop that the provider replaces every few minutes, so it moves but is a few minutes old. A still image is a photo the camera takes every few minutes; it is not video. Use “Live video only” on the map, the radar and place pages to see just the moving ones.