System surveys Ireland’s M8

Geospatial engineering company Coastway has completed an as-built survey of the final section of the M8 motorway in Ireland using the StreetMapper mobile mapping system.
February 20, 2012 Read time: 1 min
StreetMapper collects billions of highly accurate measurements
Geospatial engineering company 2857 Coastway has completed an as-built survey of the final section of the M8 motorway in Ireland using the StreetMapper mobile mapping system.

StreetMapper has been developed by UK-based 1639 3D Laser Mapping in conjunction with German-based guidance and navigation specialist IGI.

Collecting billions of highly accurate measurements in a fraction of the time it would take using traditional survey techniques the resulting 3D models are compared to the digital road design and will be used as a base line record against which future surveys can be compared.

Opened in May, the 41km M7 Portlaoise-Castletown and M8 Portlaoise-Cullahill sections completes the Dublin to Cork interurban route.

“StreetMapper appeared to be the only logical way to complete such a large survey in a timely and cost effective way,” said Mark Hudson, director and co-founder of Coastway.

Using StreetMapper, and working on behalf of the Portlaoise Joint Venture, Coastway mobile mapped both carriageways on each side of the newly-constructed motorway, including slip roads, recording as-built road levels, utilities and structures.
Connected Construction

For more information on companies in this article

Related Content

  • Upgrade for Scottish road
    February 17, 2012
    Work is progressing on a £320 million (e385 million) project to upgrade a busy 18km stretch of the main A80 Glasgow-Stirling road in Scotland to motorway standard. The project, between the villages of Stepps and Haggs, is part of a massive infrastructure investment in Scotland's transport network, and construction work includes almost 8km of new dual-lane motorway and hard shoulders between
    Read More
  • Precision narrows the gap between design software and GIS
    March 20, 2012
    Greater precision is helping blur the boundaries between GIS technology and design software While GIS map based technology has extended its range across an ever more universal spectrum of uses in the highways sector, it is increasingly showing weaknesses for engineering purposes. It is very often not accurate enough. This has not mattered previously because the GIS tool has been seen essentially as an automated version of paper based systems from the design department's point of view. Where engineers
    Read More
  • Surveying utilities across the UK
    December 11, 2024
    Ordnance Survey is surveying utilities across the UK.
    Read More
  • US adopts minimum retroreflectivity standards
    September 12, 2022
    The US Federal Highway Administration has announced the standards required for maintaining minimum levels of retroreflectivity for pavement markings.
    Read More

Highlighted Content