Blom has signed an agreement with Grupo Santillana, the most important education and training publisher in Spain and Portugal. The objective is to enable access to the whole Blom’s high resolution imagery database through the company’s geographic server BlomURBEX, providing a centralized solution to select, manage and download Blom’s content to be published in the textbooks.
BlomURBEX tool will provide immediate access to the whole Blom’s image library as well as a delivery system fully integrated with Santillana’s GIS tool. The contract is extended to Spain, Portugal and Latin America and means an easy access to a wide high resolution database as well as easy way for collection and delivery of Blom’s mapping content.
Blom’s unique oblique image library will become the most extensive and complete centralized images database for Grupo Santillana’s edition process, increasing text books illustrations possibilities and enhancing its variety and quality. Blom’s database consists of oblique images, based on Pictometry technology, covering more than 1,100 of the largest cities in Europe.
Blom and Microsoft renew and extend agreement
Blom has renewed and extended the existing agreement with Microsoft to 2014. The agreement allows Microsoft the right to use Blom’s database of oblique aerial images. The RealImages database is based on Pictometry technology and is the most extensive library of oblique aerial images, covering more than 1,100 cities in Europe. The contract has a value between USD 10 and USD 14 million from January 2010 until end of the contract period.
Blom will continue to provide the oblique images both offline and online through the company’s own server BlomURBEX.