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Sanborn Wins Mapping Projects in Three States The Sanborn Map Company has won contracts for four mapping projects in three U.S. states: North Carolina, Georgia and California. The company's office in Charlotte, N.C., will perform the work. The first two projects are for the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT). Reselected by the DOT for its annual statewide mapping initiative, Sanborn will provide professional photogrammetric mapping services throughout the state, an area of 52,669 square miles. The DOT will use the data to aid highway design, including the planning of road improvements. In a separate contract, Sanborn will provide helicopter and airborne GPS/Inertial Navigation System (INS) aerial photography services and high-accuracy profile mapping for NCDOT. The AGPS/INS photography will be used to develop design-scale digital mapping and digital orthophoto imagery. The low-altitude helicopter photography will be used to develop highly accurate road-profile data that conforms to survey-grade standards of accuracy. Additionally, Sanborn was hired by Whitfield County, Ga., to provide countywide black-and-white digital orthophotos and GIS services for the 290-square mile county. Whitfield County's GIS and tax departments will use the half-foot-pixel-resolution orthophoto images for a variety of purposes. Sanborn will acquire the AGPS/INS aerial photography during the 2003 spring flying season, completing the project in fall 2004. The city of Lakewood, Calif., has hired Sanborn to provide 1"=100' scale, color digital orthophoto imagery with quarter-foot-pixel resolution for the city. Sanborn will fly the 12-square-mile area in spring 2003, completing the project in July. The city's tax, planning and public works departments will use the data to better serve Lakewood's 74,000 residents. Sanborn offers a full suite of GIS and photogrammetric mapping services to federal, state, and local governments, as well as to private companies. The company's core services include data acquisition, digital mapping, and data conversion. For further information, please contact Carol Thorpe at Sanborn, Pelham, N.Y. Tel: (877) 368-9702. E-mail: [email protected].
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