Aerial pictures like “Google Earth on steroids”

Edmonton Journal Sunday 8th May, 2011

EDMONTON - An airplane equipped with a special GPS camera will be snapping photos of Edmonton-area municipalities over the next few weeks to gather highly detailed geospatial mapping data, says the manager of geomatic services with the City of Leduc.The orthophotography project -- which Bart Pouteau describes as "Google Earth on steroids" -- starts now and will provide 16 municipalities and two other partners with digital files by November. Those files will show scale-corrected aerial images of land in and around Edmonton, complete with co-ordinates that tie each tiny pixel to its earth location. The precise data makes orthophotographs especially useful to municipalities working on planning and infrastructure projects, said Pouteau."Roughly 80 per cent of the information a municipality dea...

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