1Spatial plc, UK, was called upon by SINFOGEO, Spain, to provide a robust, flexible and easy-to-use cloud-based solution. This was for a public tender to complete the production of a new national 100k scale cartographic series in Spain. SINFOGEO opted to use 1Spatial Cloud for the project, which required SINFOGEO to update existing content using SPOT5 imagery and integrate the two differing data models into a single schema for all 50 provinces of Spain.
All the data used had to be quality assured to produce an accurate final product. The data being used had been collected separately and it was the first time the Spanish Army and Government had worked together on a project like this. A great deal of harmonising was required as both parties had different uses for the new data product moving forward.
Using 1Spatial Cloud Platform, SINFOGEO were able to underpin the quality assurance of the project from the onset, through each part of the supply chain. The fact that it was cloud-based also enabled them to cut out expensive and time consuming deployment of software and hardware across each contributor’s site in Spain.
The final database has now been completed and is being used by both the Spanish Government and the Army for different requirements. The next phase of the project is generalisation, where they can use data at different scales to derive multiple products from the database. This is something that would not have been possible without a trusted data set. The final goal is a single database which the Spanish Government and the Army can share, which will save on time and budget maintaining two databases.
Source: GIM International
