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The network was rebuilt around published United States sources. Coverage is what an agency can verify, not what a list can claim.
On 28 August 2026 the network was rebuilt around published United States sources: thirty-four, up from twenty-six, every one a catalogue an agency can verify. Seven sources outside the country were removed, along with the code that existed only to read them.
Each is published by the agency that owns the cameras, and two states publish two. Fifteen were counted when they were added and their figures stand. The rest page as you read them, so their totals move and no figure is printed for them.
From Minnesota's 1,943 to Hawaii's 168, at the last rebuild. A camera's identity is its image address and its position hashed together: a mast publishes one row per direction, and one state publishes 892 cameras from 884 addresses.
Every camera is placed by the coordinates its catalogue publishes and linked to its nearest neighbours under a fixed edge budget, so density, corridors and gaps read straight off the map. A state arrives whole, as one catalogue, or not at all.
Each catalogue publishes a refresh period, and a feed is read on that period. A frame that is a placeholder is refused twice, by its address before the fetch and by its digest after it, so a camera that is down never shows a picture of a camera that is down.
Alaska and Hawaii carry sources and are drawn beside the totals, not on the projection.
34 published catalogues reach 34 states. 13,864 cameras were counted at the last rebuild. The remaining sources page, so their totals move and no figure is printed for them here.