PASCO provides several kinds of company-original data contents to meet the demands of our customers, including national 2-D and 3-D maps, and aerial photos. This map data can be used to develop customer map contents by special order. Our leading-edge measurement technology enables us to provide flexible services ranging from surveying to creating map contents.

Japan's digital map data

2-D maps to different scales

PASCO provides national mapping data prepared under the same specifications at a 1:25,000 scale, and also more detailed urban mapping data to a 1:2,500 scale that covers about 1,400 cities nationwide and even depicts the shape of individual buildings. Both maps, Fresh Maps, are updated every year, and have earned a reputation for their excellent visual representation and accurate road data. They are used by not only local governments but also private companies for their area marketing or logistics operations. More than just a digital map, they can be combined with the national census results, commercial statistics, or a company's customer information to provide spatial information solutions.

Aerial photography

Highly accurate digital aerial photos covering all major cities (orthoimages)

Up until recently, the demand for aerial surveying was mainly from local governments to make 2-D maps. After undertaking the development and introduction of advanced technology, PASCO has now made it possible to acquire very accurate and high-quality aerial photographic data. Now this data can be used to create value-added commercial photographs as well as to make 2-D maps, and even do automatic 3-D modeling, and in this way PASCO tries to foster new uses for aerial survey data.
Orthoimages are one such use that has already been successfully developed. A complete lineup of orthoimage maps is available in a 25 cm resolution for the three big urban areas of Japan, a 40 cm resolution for the government-designated cities, and a 1 meter resolution for other urban planning areas.

3D map: MAP CUBE

Highly accurate high-quality 3-D digital maps

Our 3-D digital maps represent urban areas as if they were real. Buildings are reproduced on the map with a highly accurate height, appearance, and color. Cities look almost as real as possible on the map. The 3-D digital map series has a high horizontal accuracy, within ± 30cm, and a vertical accuracy of ± 15 cm, and covers all the government-designated cities including the 23 Wards of Tokyo. This map is used for a wide range of applications, from landscape simulations, disaster prevention simulations, car navigation systems, human navigation, news reporting, video games, and urban planning. The map's high quality representation has won praise from many different fields.