High-resolution Street-level Imagery

 

The technology comes from the Dutch company Cyclomedia. Blom signed a partnership agreement with Cyclomedia in summer 2011 for the exclusive use of this technology in Scandinavia. During the summer, the first cities were captured, and the Municipality of Falkenberg is the first in Sweden to use the BlomSTREET technology. The technology is proven and has been used by professionals, such as municipalities, for over fifteen years in The Netherlands.

BlomSTREET, powered by Cyclomedia, is delivered as a cloud service where the customer receives images and functionality delivered via a web service. No storage of data is necessary for the client. This also allows functions and data to be continually updated without the customer requiring new installations.

Compared to other free street services on the web, such as Google Street View, users have the ability to take measurements directly from the BlomSTREET imagery. Metadata is also included, meaning it's possible to know exactly what time and day the images were captured. Customers are also entitled to use and download images within their own operations.

The imagery can give instant impressions if citizens submit fault reports of poor visibility, poor sidewalks and vegetation adjacent to roads. It is possible to form an opinion on the subject, already on the phone with a citizen. The imagery can be useful even in planning permission management.