The City of Malmö has been using street view technology BlomSTREET™ - powered by Cyclomedia since early 2012. The 2011 BlomSTREET™ imagery covers the entire city of Malmö and contains more than 300,000 single street view images.
"Currently it is mainly the City Planning
and Road Departments who make use the imagery in their
operations, but we envision that all departments will soon
benefit from this versatile product ", says Allan
Almqvist, city engineer for the City of Malmö.
BlomSTREET™ is captured from ground level, resulting in a
comprehensive, high resolution and geo referenced library
of 360-degree panoramic images developed for professional
users. The data is provided with an easy to use software
package that enables 3D measurements and visualization of
2D and 3D information directly from the imagery.
Allan Almqvist discussed Malmö's reasoning for
choosing BlomSTREET - "The Blom product provides
many advantages over other commercially available street
view imagery products. Blom has provided the tools to
integrate BlomSTREET™ into our general mapping portal,
Malmö city atlas. This means that all of our geographical
data is visible within the same system, combining with our
existing maps, orthophotos, oblique images and now street
views. This really reduces training costs and makes it
extremely easy for any of our employees to use the
data." adds Allan Almqvist.
This technology has been developed by CycloMedia and the
data capture is performed by Blom using two cameras and a
GPS (Globally Positioning System) mounted on the roof of a
specially adapted car.
"The benefits of BlomSTREET™ are that we can
integrate the data into our own systems. We have full
control over the frequency and which streets or bicycle
paths we choose to capture. Measurement function, metadata
and the ability to add vectors in the BlomSTREET™ imagery
are all key elements of the products", concluded
Allan Almqvist.
Jens Ekander, an architect at Malmö City uses BlomSTREET™
every day. "Visualisation and measurements are
often required to form an understanding of an existing
site. So by using BlomSTREET™ I can quickly get a feel for
a house or a street. For me Blom's imagery is a great
help".
Another continuous BlomSTREET™ user is Peter Ahlström, GIS
Engineer at Malmö City. "Because the imagery has
such a high resolution it is very helpful in multiple
situations to interpret orthophotos and field
sketches."
"I use the imagery for updating the primary map
and as verification when I edit data from field
measurements. I also make additional measurements myself,
so it gives me the opportunity to see what it looks like on
the ground and can therefore act as quality
control" reported Peter Ahlström.
For more information about BlomSTREET™, contact your local Blom office.
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