If you work in any outdoor trade with a crew of mobile workers and equipment, you can use VuMAP to save time and money on project administration. Follow the step by step example below to see how. Let&...
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Questions To Ask Yourself Before Purchasing Aerial Imagery
Where to start? The process below should help you decide what kind of aerial imagery you need and how to acquire it. You’ve got a few choices of satellite and aerial orthophoto. Answering a few ques...
How zoomed in can the image be before it looks blurry?
How Does Image Resolution Relate To Map Scale? First, 20cm imagery is not the same as 1:20 map scale. Maps are created with mix and match combinations of data sources. Each source may be fine on its o...
Inserting image tiles based on coordinates and scale
The file name of the tiled data from MapWarehouse contains the tile’s insertion point in UTM coordinates. By interpreting the file names you can find: The data type (orthophoto, parcel, contours...
Is the date and time of the photo included?
The mosaics on MapCast and VuMAP, as well as the photo tiles on MapWarehouse are made up of several photos stitched together. To locate the date and time for a tile, it is necessary to look up the fli...
What is included in a VuMAP subscription?
The following data layers are available. Review a detailed interactive coverage map here. FBS Data 2002 FBS Imagery 2006 FBS Imagery 2007 FBS Imagery 2008 FBS Imagery 2009 FBS Imagery 2010 FBS Imagery...
MapCast Transitions
Helping you navigate the new system 10 years ago FBSWMS (First Base Solutions Web Mapping Service) was launched to deliver our aerial imagery mosaic base layers directly to your desktop mapping projec...