GeoCam’s ‘Public Works: Street Assets’ Data Model Available Now!
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have evolved over the years to work with pre-defined data models - which are created and packaged to meet a specific industry need. The process to map and collect information on the physical assets that are managed and maintained by local and municipal governments is a slow and tedious process, often requiring tons of field team resources, and the deployment of expensive, high accuracy GNSS devices.
Attempts to improve on this extensive and expensive process using Mobile Mapping Lidar systems is an expenditure that only the wealthiest cities can afford. The fact is that most municipalities do not have the budget or the expertise to provision and deploy these Lidar base systems on their own, especially in small to medium sized metro areas, as well as smaller projects in large cities.
GeoCam: You Can Have It All
Our approach here at GeoCam is that anyone that subscribes to our AI-Native Reality Capture platform receives their own easy to use GNSS-enabled camera. Which means that for the affordable entry level price of $10,000, almost any organization can have the capability to collect accurate, intelligent imagery of their street assets whenever they want or need to. Using GeoCam anyone in the organization, including first time users, can quickly and easily get setup and is 100% ready to capture data in under an hour. The GeoCam platform automates the processing of all your data and imagery through our Visual Positioning and Mapping engine, which provides almost instant access to your own “streetview”.
But what comes next? Building map objects from the imagery at scale is still a time consuming task for many organizations. Using the GeoCam platform you now leverage a set of data packages that have been created for specific industries and applications with aligned data models. These datasets include GIS ready features for use on the Esri ArcGIS platform or other asset management systems. GeoCam’s data packages leverage Machine Learning to support and automate the creation of GIS features.
Introducing the ‘Public Works: Street Assets’ Data Model
‘Public Works: Street Assets’ is first data model that is available to GeoCam users. Within this data model we have developed a standard set of objects that we map as part of our services. Each object comes with a GeoCam icon to use in your GIS system. The new ‘Public Works: Street Assets’ data model includes the following objects:
Roadway signals
Cabinets
Poles
Streetlights
Trees
Hydrants
Guardrail end caps
Signs
Stormwater assets
ADA ramps
Bus Shelters
Cameras
We understand that each city and county is different with variable density of assets based on the local architype. But our goal is to make the process of gathering and analyzing street data relatively simple, and part of the way that we do that is by providing transparent pricing.
We fully realize the ‘Public Works: Street Assets’ data model is not the industry standard, it has a mixture of objects in it that might not always relate to your needs. But reach out and connect with the GeoCam team and we’ll discuss your specific needs and requirements, and we can expand the standard data set to include more objects or attributes. For example, if you’re looking for signs by type we can create that for you. Or maybe you don’t care for poles since you don’t own them. Not to worry we can remove that from the process.
A New Level of Intelligent Imagery
Our vision with GeoCam is to help you scale rapid, high quality imagery to provide value across the organization and this new level of intelligent imagery enables the extraction of GIS features. But we know it’s not the full solution to your needs and this is where our partnership with Esri comes into place.
All the GIS data that we create on your behalf is streamed through Esri ArcGIS feature services and all of their data layers. Your team can easily extract this data to use in your ArcGIS system, which is simultaneously updated in the Esri ArcGIS Solutions Local Government template. Once you are set up on the GeoCam platform you can deploy field teams with your ArcGIS apps to add even richer data and information that can only be executed in the field.