earthmine Partners with Autodesk, Tackles Professional Geospatial Market

Earthmine, a contestant in the consumer street side image capture market, continues to get cozy with more professional geospatial applications. Earthmine has always tried to position itself as having more accurate data for doing 3D models and other geospatial mensuration applications. Now, the company has partnered with Autodesk so that Map 3D users can use earthmine data for  asset management, inventorying and other large scale applications where engineering-grade data is not always necessary.  For example, earthmine is targeting the part of the market where a Topcon laser scanner may be overkill. The company believes that they offer a different mobile mapping solution that can be used for infrastructure-scale planning problems that can be accomplish at the desktop rather than sending expensive field crews out to verify certain situations.

Earthmine believes that they can help capture street side data and bring it into MAP 3d to become part of the design-build workflow where less than 1 meter accuracy is sufficient. In some cases earthmine can achieve 10 cm accuracy where data has been captured close to its vehicle.

What makes earthmine different from Google StreetView or NAVTEQ True. Some of the key differentiators a layer of 3d information needed by mapping applications and that data can be collected when and where the customer wants. The company is using building a worldwide partner network that will satisfy local data demands. earthmine is looking to support the