Meet Project Manager Antti Jakobsson and Chief Specialist Heli Laaksonen at Paikkatietoalusta - Geospatial Platform Project -exhibition stand. Geospatial Platform Project is a national platform for accessing national base data themes such as buildings, traffic networks, aerial and satellite imagery, point clouds, hydrography, land cover and land use, addresses etc. The unique feature of the platform is that it offers harmonization tools for the data providers so that for exam

Laser scanning data from City of Pori National Land Survey of Finland is providing laser scanning data, which is utilised i.a. for making topographic models. Topographic models are used for example in route optimisation and data collection applications and in applications studying water discharge and the forms of the ground surface. Laser scanning data is also utilised for creating contour lines. At the moment we are heading towards the new era of national laser scanning prog

National Land Survey of Finland, in collaboration with municipalities, produces semantically rich 3D-models of all of Finland. 3D-models will be available in Level-of-Detail 2 (CityGML) and consist of features such as buildings and bridges. 3D-data is available on National Topographic Database (Kansallinen maastotietokanta). The production begins with 3D-buildings and follows the schedule of the national laser scanning programme. 3D-models provide new type of advantages for u

Currently, Finnish municipalities and regions generate and maintain data about land use in various different ways. The data has become siloed among various operators and thus, it cannot be utilised in a common electronic form. Overlapping work is done which wastes resources and tax money. The majority of land use decision data is not easily available in a standardised, machine-readable format. That is why we have developed Land Use Decisions project, promoting the digitalisat

The big cities of the 2020s are a fascinating market for innovations across all walks of life. How to best serve the needs of the huge urban populations in the cities of the future is the question many startups, corporations, and public service providers are working hard on. The time is right to set up a process for continuous strategic foresight in order to anticipate change and come up with the innovative solutions that set an example in a new world of smart cities. Here we

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Harri Santamala is the CEO of Sensible 4 and one of the top Finnish experts in intelligent transport. Picture a winter morning when, instead of scraping the ice off your car windows, you could have 10 more minutes of shut-eye on a driverless bus taking you from your home street to the metro. This is not sci-fi, but a glimpse at the present and near future of traffic in the Helsinki Smart Region. ”Automated metros, robot cars, intelligent traffic control systems – you name it.