Products
Skape can offer you the following range of geographic information services:
3D City Models3D Land Skape
Product details: Full coverage of pre-built block 3D buildings in Great Britain available to download in 3DS or OBJ formats.
Product uses: Cost effective and suitable for project feasibility, bids and competitions. Import into your CAD or SketchUp applications for instant block models and massing with your choice of Skape 3D terrain and 2D overlay mapping or imagery.
Key benefit: Save time hunting for building heights and 3D block models - available to view online or download from Skape.3D Urban Skape
Product details: Full coverage of pre-built 3D buildings with accurate roof detail for central business districts in major city centres. 3D Urban Skape city models can be built to order at extremely competitive rates for areas outside of pre-built coverage.
Product uses: Cost effective and suitable for detailed building design, sun casting, visual impact analysis and context modelling. Export 3D Urban Skape to import into your CAD or SketchUp applications or use Skape's import functionality and online 3D tools.
Key benefit: Export cost-effective 3D models with accurate roof detail in an instant - discount path to upgrade from 3D Land Skape to a 3D Urban Skape model - available to view online or download from Skape.3D Real Skape
Product details: Full coverage of photo-real 3D buildings with accurate roof detail and hi-res rendered oblique aerial imagery for central business districts in major city centres.
Product uses: Cost effective and suitable for detailed building design and context modelling. 3D Real Skape city models are ideal for real-world visualisation, improving the context of your CAD designs for client meetings or planning approval.
Key benefit: Import your CAD design into a Real Skape city model for cost-effective visual impact analysis. See where your building design shadow falls, create and export real-world 3D movies - 3D Real Skape is available to view online or download from Skape.Town Skape
View and export prebuilt 3D block models, road mapping and vegetation with 3D terrain through Skape. Ideal for wide area master planning and context modelling.
Product details: Full coverage of pre built block 3D buildings in Great Britain available to export into CAD or SketchUp. Export in 3DS, 3D PDF or OBJ formats with an Open data license.
Product uses: Cost effective 3D data for wide area Master Planning, project feasibility, bids and competitions. Import directly into your CAD or SketchUp applications for instant block models and massing with your choice of Skape 3D terrain and 2D overlay mapping.
Key benefit: Obtain 3D context models from anywhere in Great Britain - map and model buildings, roads, terrain and vegetation. Available to view online, export & download in an instant through Skape. Town Skape is free to view online through Skape.
OS Mastermap
Large scale Ordnance Survey DXF 2D mapping that can be viewed in a 3D perspective over terrain models through Skape.
Details: Full coverage of Ordnance Survey large-scale mapping in Great Britain available to export in DXF format. This mapping layer contains over 450 million individual features that represent objects such as 2D buildings, roads, rivers, fields and fences.
Uses: Export cost effective 2D large-scale DXF data that you can view in Skape in a 3D perspective, with or without 3D building models. Import into your CAD or SketchUp applications for instant 2D mapping with your choice of Skape 3D terrain model.
Benefits: Ideal to use with 3D Land Skape building models. Imports into your CAD software in the correct geographical location labelled with the correct OS grid references. A small charge applies to viewing OS Mastermap through Skape.
True Skape
High resolution aerial photography that can be viewed in a 3D perspective with 3D building and terrain models through Skape.
Details: High resolution vertical aerial photography coverage for central business districts in major city centres. Each True Skape pixel represents between 5cm and 10cm on the ground depending upon location. Available to export as Jpeg, GeoTiff or GIS formats.
Uses: Cost effective and suitable for draping over 3D terrain models. Export True Skape to import into your CAD or SketchUp applications with 3D building models or use Skape's 3D import functionality and online tools to view your designs in a real-world context.
Benefits: Vertical building lean has been removed making a better fit when used as an overlay with 3D Real Skape or 3D Urban Skape building models available to view online, export and download through Skape. True Skape is free to view throughout Great Britain online through Skape.
12.5cm and 25cm Aerial Imagery
Mid-resolution aerial photography that can be viewed in a 3D perspective with 3D building and terrain models through Skape.
Details: Each aerial photo pixel represents between 12.5cm or 25cm on the ground depending upon location. Available to export as Jpeg, GeoTiff or GIS formats.
Uses: Cost effective and suitable for draping over 3D terrain models. Export True Skape to import into your CAD or SketchUp applications with 3D building models or use Skape's 3D import functionality and online tools to view your designs in a real-world context.
Benefits: Extremely cost-effective aerial photography available to view online, export and download through Skape. 12.5cm and 25cm aerial imagery is free to view throughout Great Britain online through Skape.
OS Street View
Mid scale street level mapping that can be viewed in a 3D perspective over terrain models through Skape.
Details: Full GB-wide coverage of street level mapping at 1:5,000 and 1:10,000 scale available to export as Jpeg, GeoTiff or GIS formats.
Uses: Street level backdrop mapping enabling you to locate your project site.
Benefits: OS Street View is free to view throughout Great Britain enabling you to locate your project site at street level at no cost.
Digital Terrain Models
View, measure and export prebuilt Digital Terrain Models in a 3D perspective anywhere in Great Britain using Skape. DTM's are available to export in Autodesk 3D Studio Max, AutoCAD DWG and DXF output.
Details: Full GB-wide coverage of digital terrain is available at several resolutions and formats; 1 to 12 points per metre LiDAR derived DTM's and 5m resolution aerial photograph derived DTM's are available in both terrain mesh or point data formats.
Uses: Export your terrain models on their own or overlay aerial photograph or street mapping with the 3D building objects of your choice in either block, roof detail or fully rendered formats.
Benefits: Skape DTM's seamlessly import into your CAD software in the correct geographical location with correct height information. DTM's are free to view through Skape.
Digital Surface Models
Digital surface models (DSMs) are topographic maps of the earth's surface that can be viewed in a 3D perspective over terrain models in Skape. DSM's are available to export in AutoCAD DWG and DXF formats.
Details: Skape DSM's are all prebuilt and provide you with a geometrically correct reference frame over which other data layers can be draped. In addition to natural terrain features, Skape Digital Surface Model data includes buildings, vegetation and roads.
Uses: Export cost effective DSM's from Skape to use in your existing CAD applications. Skape DSM's are suitable for creating 3D fly throughs or simulations and undertaking line of site analysis.
Benefits: View in 3D and buy online through Skape to ensure greater degree of accuracy for your 3D topography and road mapping.
Contour vector data
5 metre interval vector data is available in Skape that can exported as AutoCAD DXF or ESRI Shapefile format.
Details: Each contour represents a specific terrain height above sea level calculated every 5 metres on the ground.
Uses: Extremely cost effective and flexible data set for producing lower resolution terrain models using your own CAD software.
Benefits: You will soon be able to view Skape contours in a 3D perspective over terrain models through Skape but can export contour data now.
New Autodesk CAD® software
Create and distribute virtual city models and infrastructure projects for review. Infoterra provide software supply, training and support.
Details: LandXplorer is a new application from Autodesk that is fully compatible with all Skape 3D and 2D data exports. LandXplorer Server Provides more dynamic visualizations of large-scale 3D city and infrastructure models over the web.
Uses: It enables infrastructure project teams to create and distribute large-scale digital city and infrastructure models, so stakeholders can better conceptualize and visualize design projects before they are built.
Benefits: Aggregate existing data - Include data from AutoCAD® Civil 3D® and FBX® and database sources, Simulate design scenarios - Rapidly build or import visually accurate, compelling Skape models from imagery, terrain and geospatial data, Visualize data and environments - Visualize infrastructure projects in a digital city model and Presentation-quality video and imagery - Produce images, videos, and plots of digital city models.
LandBase™
High Definition Land Cover Mapping
Details: High resolution land cover vector mapping providing land cover classifications identifying the location of water, bare ground, buildings, artificial surfaces, trees and shrubs.
Uses: Import LandBase directly into your CAD or SketchUp applications to enable the accurate heighting and positioning of trees in relation to your 3D buildings and designs.
Benefits: Cost effective and suitable for understanding the location and heights of trees for assisting in visual impact analysis - available to view online, export and download through Skape. A small view charge applies to viewing LandBase™ online through Skape.
Video and Imagery
When true to life visualisation is required, Infoterra offers a number of image based solutions from HD video and still images through to 360 º Immersive technology.
Details: Capture street scenes or internal building structure and layout using our mobile or static immersive video technology to create virtual tours or illustrate real-life scenes.
Uses: Ideal for panoramic video and immersive visualisation for Marketing, Urban Modelling, Regeneration, Highways and Construction and Planning purposes.
Benefits: A very rapid and cost-effective method of capturing real-world panoramic video and still imagery at a high level of visual accuracy.
Rapid Surveyor™
Mobile laser mapping system producing Point Cloud data wherever you need.
Product details: Rapid Surveyor can capture precise information of building facades, bridges, road and street furniture, vegetation, poles and more; all from a moving vehicle. Making up to 200,000 measurements per second Rapid Surveyor delivers new levels of point cloud detail and precision quickly and cost effectively. Simultaneous 360 degree immersive video and photography can also be captured.
Product uses: Rapid Surveyor data is ideal for Urban Modelling, Regeneration, Highways, Construction and Planning
Key benefit: A very rapid and cost effective method of surveying with a high level of accuracy.
