It began with the Richland County Ohio Engineer’s office. They set out to inventory and inspect all their roadway pavement markings. The Richland County Engineer, Adam Gove, P.E., P.S., stated, “When evaluating the condition of our County Roads, it became clear that our pavement marking inventory was out of date. We did not have an effective way of tracking which roads had pavement markings, when they were last repainted, and what type of material was used when last applied…”.
The American Disabilities Act (ADA) recognizes the significance of a city’s pathway infrastructure and is set out to make certain they pose no barrier to the mobility-impaired pedestrian by implementing a Public Right of Way Accessibilities Guidelines (PROWAG).
GPS Lands Singapore took on an initiative to produce a highly detailed map for an autonomous vehicle testing area in Singapore using 3D Mobile Mapping system to collect the data and perform feature extraction using the 3D data.
Until the realisation of the herein presented solution, it was inconceivable to view several thousand kilometres of point cloud and over 1.4 million images using standard computers at a public authority.
Mobile technology has changed the way humanity navigates its future. In the palm of our hands we are now integrated with all the people we know and don’t know through social media applications, we have integrated our work spaces with our home, and we can even track our geographic position and plot the quickest route to work. Why are we not as successfully integrated at work when it comes to the technology solutions we leverage every day to satisfy our client’s needs? It baffles me that we live in this world of “workplace technology interplay denial.”
As part of singapore’s quest to be a smart nation, the Singapore Land Authority (sla) embarked on a 3D national mapping initiative in 2014. This initiative aims to create and maintain an accurate national 3D map that is developed once and used by many.
In the past, people in Kuwait struggled to find a specific building. The Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI) intervened, inventing an address system that is unique in the world: The ‘Kuwait Finder’, an application for the public, governmental and private sectors. PACI now intends to also provide a full 3D map service for the country, which will allow users to see the streets of Kuwait in realistic 3D panoramic view.
Open government and transparency are the key components of a modern municipal strategy. With these core principles in mind, the city council of Donostia/San Sebastián decided to embed Orbit 3DM Publisher in its web environment, in order to provide its citizens with the most accurate and up-to-date maps of the city.
The survey and identification of public advertizement space for the calculation of the advertising rights of La Matanza allows the city to quantify and typify all the installations and/or advertising elements through which the economic activity of a certain social actor is developed and materialized according to the ordinance tariff 2017 for the advertising rights of the municipality of La Matanza.
SEMAPA, a water utility company located in the city of Cochabamba (Bolivia) launched a competitive bidding to find a company that brings to the table a viable solution to update, visualize, manage and measure their field assets and pipe network information, knowing that they had serious budgetary restrictions; assets and pipe network were stretched out over an area covering around 3.000 hectares; the starting point was an outdated and most probably inconsistent database about field infrastructure.