StreetMapper 360 Maps Bournemouth in 3D

StreetMapper 360 , which is a joint development between 3D Laser Mapping and German guidance and navigation specialist IGI, has been specifically designed for the rapid 3D mapping of highways, runways, railways, infrastructure and buildings. Using vehicle-mounted lasers offering a 360-degree field of view, StreetMapper enables high precision mapping to a range of 300 metres, a capacity of 300,000 measurements per second per sensor and recorded accuracies in independent real world projects of better than 10 millimetres. Travelling at speeds of up to 70 kmph, StreetMapper can capture every detail along the highway corridor including barriers, gulleys, overhead wires and building facades, helping surveyors to create highly accurate 3D computer models for planning, maintenance and incident management.

Ordnance Survey already maintains the most widely used mapping in Britain, OS MasterMap, through a combination of GPS ground survey and high-quality aerial photography. It makes on average 5,000 changes a day to that database, but it remains a two-dimensional representation. OS state that it will be continuing with trials to help perfect the technology, but detailed mapping in three dimensions could be a reality within the next five years.