The street recordings will take place in August and September by means of Cyclomedia Technologies BV’s camera vehicles. The vehicles are equipped with cameras on their roofs that capture measurable 360° panoramic photos and point cloud data of the street environment.
The material obtained through the project will not be public. It will be processed and stored confidentially in accordance with data security requirements. People’s faces and vehicle number plates will be automatically blurred in the photographs.
The City of Helsinki commissioned the street view recording for the collection of road sign information and the planning and maintenance of the transport system and streets. Technical information from the photographic material is stored solely for use by the authorities, i.e. in the City’s own systems, and road sign information is stored in the national road and street database, Digiroad, maintained by the Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency.
The street view recordings are carried out at a quiet time of day during daylight hours, when there is as little traffic as possible on the streets. The total duration of the project depends on the number of vehicles and the weather conditions. The recording cannot be done in rainy or foggy weather. The aim is to capture the entire Helsinki area by mid-September at the latest.
