Transit New Zealand Visualizes with Microsoft and Google
Transit New Zealand, operator of the state highways, has two different projects going on related to its road network. The “video viewer prototype” a team effort of Transit, Microsoft and Wellington-based e-spatial runs under the Microsoft Innovation Centre and aims to correlate video views of New Zealand roads with location data. Roadrunner or Virtual Highway, as its known on the Web, is two years old and uses GIS from Argonaut and Google Earth. The former has many layers of data and latter “is designed purely to help road users familiarise themselves with the route before travelling it,” says Transit spokesman Anthony Frith.
There are plans, say a source to integrate Virtual Highway into the road asset management system. I suspect we’ll see more situations like this as both organizations push into public sector enterprises.
