Image Collection

The Hivemapper Network is designed to protect people's privacy while collecting imagery to build and update a global map. Your personal information and location data are not the product being monetized. The Hivemapper Network is building a private mapping network that offers contributors anonymity.

What Is Collected?

The Hivemapper Dashcam is an open-source product that collects information in a privacy-centric manner. The primary pieces of data it collects includes:

How Imagery Data Is Used

We build Map APIs that businesses can consume.

Randomly Generated Usernames + Location Data + Imagery collected

Each Contributor’s username is randomly generated to ensure anonymity, and contributors’ location data and imagery collected is never publicly tied to a username or Hivemapper profile.

Automatically blurs faces, license plates, cars, and bodies from the imagery on the edge - dashcam mapping device - prior to uploading imagery.

The Hivemapper Dashcam automatically privacy blurs images and detects objects (e.g., speed limit signs) on the edge.

Personal and network level privacy zones where all data collection is automatically paused.

When contributors collect imagery, faces, license plates, cars, and bodies are automatically blurred on their Hivemapper Dashcams, to ensure the imagery we receive does not include personal information of road users (bystanders). Unblurred imagery is never shared with the Hivemapper App and Hivemapper has no access to unblurred imagery.

Each Contributor’s username is randomly generated to ensure anonymity, and contributors’ location data and imagery collected is never publicly tied to a username or Hivemapper profile.

In certain countries we require you to display a placard on your vehicle indicating that you are collecting for a map. See here for the countries and placards.

People can inspect the code and see what data is being collected and how it’s being collected, see here.

Request Takedown

Hivemapper can assist with further blurring or deleting of imagery an individual considers sensitive or their personal information (e.g. a face, body, vehicle, license plate or home). If you would like to request this, please complete this form or send us a message to [email protected].

Active Imagery Collection

As of Q3 2025, imagery is being actively collected at these locations. You can also view map coverage here.