City GIS coordinator briefs board on biannual EagleView aerial imagery plan

Brad Bloomer, the city’s GIS coordinator, presented the proposal to continue the city’s biannual aerial imagery program, which uses vendor EagleView (also known as Pictometry). “So the item before you is an aerial photography flights performed by a company called EagleView or sometimes known as Pictometry,” he said, adding the imagery provides 1-inch resolution and supports multiple departments and public web-mapping applications.

Bloomer said the city times flights to alternate with county collections so that the city effectively has annual imagery available. The board treated the item as a review-level CIP entry; no formal action was requested at this meeting. Board members asked no substantive follow-up questions and the item will be considered later in the budget process.