Digitisation & Vectorisation Services
SBL Geospatial Services provide a cost-effective and accurate Map Digitisation Service that represents analogue signals or raster images as a discrete set of points. Having been through the digitisation process the maps become much more useful and flexible, and far easier to edit and share. They also become live and evolving rather than static and inflexible.
Before any geographic image or map can be used in a GIS it must first be converted into a compatible digital / vector format. This process is known as vectorisation and is far more flexible than traditional cartography. Indeed, when used as a database, vector maps can become central to the entire asset management process allowing other information and attributes to be 'hung' on the location data and then managed within a geographical context.
We have many years of experience in this area, and have built up an enviable reputation, largely due to the reliability and scope of our work which includes digitisation of paper maps and tax maps, heads up digitisation, CAD digitisation, and digitisation of cadastral parcel maps.
CAD Services
In recent years we have noticed a significant increase in traditional CAD customers also using GIS applications and data. This has been driven both by a number of new requirements, including Building Information Modelling (BIM) and 3D visualisation, and the rise in demand for complex spatial analysis. Changes in client expectations have also played their part.
As an established specialist in the area of CAD conversion techniques, SBL serves a wide range of customers that include: architects, surveyors, mechanical, structural and civil engineers, environmental consultants, property developers.
Our CAD outsourcing services are provided by our large, capable, highly-motivated engineering teams in India. They provide complete CAD conversion services from GIS to CAD file formats, CAD to GIS file formats, and paper to CAD digitisation; they do so with precision and quality, using global standards. The size of the team, coupled with the large volume of work completed, allows us to offer very competitive rates.
The CAD Services division also offers a well-respected Parcel/Cadastral mapping service.
