London 2012 at 5cm resolution

I had such a cool afternoon playing with some of the latest image mapping available in Europe. BLOM are a company that my company are exploring as a data provider. Hence, they have sent us some sample datasets and an online web portal to check out what they have. BLOM  are the people behind the oblique and birds eye views on bing maps.

I obviously can't show any of the stuff they have sent but to give you a flavour of what they are doing, here is a picture of the Olympic Stadium (pre-track being laid). The actual image is to a 5cm resolution and was taken using a c.196 megapixel camera (a normal camera has about 10 megapixels!). So this is basically a bit like google earth but much cooler and much more detailed. Very exciting!