Mar 11, 2009

Visit a Place Virtually

Are you looking to move to a new city? Planning a lengthy trip and you’d like to take a look around the neighborhood you’re going to visit? Blue Dasher Technologies has some news for you: In its quest to provide this type of visual information, the company is adding the Phoenix metropolitan region to its database of high-density 360-degree street-level images. Blue Dasher’s fleet of image-capture vehicles photographed every public street and highway in Phoenix, Scottsdale and throughout Maricopa County during February.

The image-capture vehicles are equipped with digital camera arrays and sophisticated proprietary software for image geo-coding. Because images are recorded every 8 to 10 feet, the result is high-density photography that gives users unparalleled accuracy. When viewed online, the 360-degree images are seamless, creating an experience similar to driving down the street. The company’s database of panoramic images of major U.S. population centers is licensed to third-party providers of commercial, industrial, governmental and consumer applications.

In addition, with Blue Dasher, users have access to exact addresses, which results in a much more useful tool for a host of applications, from economic development, commercial real estate research, zoning and code enforcement, and residential real estate assessment, to consumer applications, such as planning a trip online.

“We continue to add metro areas across the country, and as elsewhere, are driving every single street in Maricopa County, including all 24 municipalities,” said Michael Reidbord, president and CEO of Blue Dasher Technologies.

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