« To realize a street-car project in a big French city is a long-term job requiring -at each step- to take into consideration both the existing environment of the future project and the present one. That is the reason why I decided to get 3D hight definition data on 300 hectares of the urban area concerned by the project. This 3D cartography of Brest includes all the buildings and streets with great accuracy. The façades are easily recognizable, and you can even read the names of the shops. In an interactive way thes data have enabled us to show the inhabitants of Brest the lay-out of the street-car line during briefing sessions.

We shall now export these data into the new web-site of the street-car project and Google Earth. Moreover we shall use these data to inform the future designers and contractors, who will thus be better able to understand the environmental context, redraw urban space and offer adapted developments. So, all the different stops, changes in street-mapping, all the various elements introduced into the urban area will be integrated into this 3D cartography and the evolutions of the project will be simulated. These new 3D technologies open new vistas and numerous prospects and services for the future. »

« To realize the project of the streetcar of Brest the 3D cartographic data provided by Virtual City have enabled us to simulate the future street-car line and clearly analyze its impact »