Major City Coverage Expanded, Highly Accurate Building Interior Mapping Available

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Sept. 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — The Sanborn Map Company, Inc. (Sanborn) continues to broaden its massive 3D data collection, including the exciting new option to provide centimeter-accurate 3D modeling of any building interior, from giant warehouses, retail centers and manufacturing facilities to high-rise office buildings.

Sanborn recently updated its 3D coverage for multiple metropolitan areas, including updates to the firm’s proprietary Citysets building attribute data. Citysets is Sanborn’s popular off-the-shelf 3D product comprising highly accurate vector, raster, elevation and building attributes.

Citysets building attributes include detailed information about each structure, such as building address, name, construction class, occupancy type, height, year built, square footage and more. This information, coupled with Sanborn’s high-resolution 3D imagery, provides a wealth of value for a wide range of professionals, including real estate developers, urban planners, architectural and engineering firms and emergency operations, to name a few.

Additionally, Sanborn now offers the capability to create highly accurate 3D models of the interior of any building with the Sanborn Platform for Indoor Mapping (SPIN) fully autonomous indoor mapping robot. SPIN utilizes a pair of light detection and ranging (Lidar) sensors to capture data at better than 3-centimeter accuracy, which can be used to create life-like models of any interior, large or small. The robot is fully autonomous, navigating on its own and avoiding obstacles—including humans—while collecting more than 43,000 precision measurements per second.

“Our customers are amazed at how quickly and efficiently SPIN performs its work,” says Dr. Sharad Oberoi, Director of IT and Software Engineering. Oberoi headed the research and development team that created SPIN. “From the data, we can create highly detailed, measurable 3D models of the building interior that can be viewed from virtually any angle. Combined with our exterior 3D building data, Sanborn’s complete offering—literally inside and out—is unparalleled in the industry.”

Sanborn’s collection of high-resolution 3D visualization data now covers the core downtown areas of more than 110 major U.S. and international cities.

Please contact:
Jason Caldwell
(719) 593-0093
jcaldwell@sanborn.com

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