ALPR cameras in Nova Scotia

3 licence plate readers and related surveillance cameras are mapped in Nova Scotia, 1 of them classified as police ALPR. Every location links back to the OpenStreetMap node it came from.

What is mapped in Nova Scotia

2 Border control

1 Police ALPR

Toll gantries and border crossings are counted separately on purpose. They read plates too, but they are a different kind of system with a different legal basis — folding them into a "surveillance cameras" total is how a map ends up overstating policing. See the categories on the map →

Who operates them

No camera in Nova Scotia carries an operator tag in OpenStreetMap.

A further 3 mapped cameras carry no operator tag, so we cannot say who runs them. That is the single biggest gap in crowdsourced ALPR data, and it is why we file records requests instead of guessing. The paper trail →

Retention rules that apply here

We have not published a province-wide retention figure for Nova Scotia. Retention in Canada is generally set force by force rather than by statute, which is the finding itself.

How the rules compare across Canada, the US and the UK →

Read this as a floor, not a total. These are cameras somebody has mapped in OpenStreetMap, not an official inventory. Newly mapped is not newly installed, and none of this captures vehicle-mounted ALPR — the fleet scanners that do most of the plate reading in Canada and appear on no dot map anywhere. The fleet layer explains the gap → Data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), generated 2026-10-19.