Overview
A Design-Ready Map of Twelve City Blocks
A landscape architecture firm redesigning a downtown corridor needed current base mapping — buildings, sidewalks, trees, utilities — across twelve blocks where the city's GIS was a decade out of date.
12
Blocks Mapped
2cm
Photo Resolution
48h
First Delivery
Challenge
Flying Safely in a Busy Downtown
Tall buildings block GPS, pedestrians fill the sidewalks and the airspace needed FAA authorization. Ground crews alone would have taken weeks of lane closures.
Approach
Drones Plus Boots on the Ground
We secured LAANC authorization, flew early-morning missions with rooftop ground control, and paired the aerial data with ground verification of utilities, inlets and tree sizes.
Designers received orthophotos, 1-foot contours, GIS layers and CAD base files — all within a week.
Deliverables
Orthophotos, contours, GIS layers, CAD base map and accuracy report.
Result
Design started two weeks early with zero field revisits requested.