Case study

Eagle Mapping has done photogrammetry and classification work in British Columbia since 1985, and has been flying LiDAR since 2007. Every delivery included the point cloud, but clients usually worked from contours and elevation models instead, because point cloud files were too large for their computers to open. Those point clouds are now hosted on LumiDB, where a 500 GB dataset opens in a browser with nothing to download.

TERRATERRE scans entire buildings in detail, producing point clouds that took up to thirty minutes, and sometimes longer for the largest projects to open and that only people with the right hardware and software could use at all. The Paris-region firm of chartered surveyors now keeps those large point clouds in LumiDB, indexed once and streamed on demand, so any laptop or tablet can open a full building without a local copy. On top of that, TERRATERRE has built two viewers of its own: one for its own team, with tools that help it work with the point cloud, one for the clients it delivers to.

Forum Virium Helsinki partnered with LumiDB to facilitate a technology pilot for the City of Helsinki’s Urban Environment Division. The initiative replaced manual hard drive shipments with API-driven data streaming, demonstrating how a centralized database improves security and accessibility for city planners.

Infrakit partnered with LumiDB to turn drone and LiDAR scans into actionable field measurements. By replacing file-based workflows with a database built for large point clouds, the team can complete depth and distance checks directly from the office. The approach is at least 50% faster than traditional site-based methods and produces more consistent documentation for regulatory requirements.

The City of Helsinki’s GIS Centre partnered with LumiDB to test whether its growing archive of point-cloud data could be made broadly usable through browser-based access. The pilot showed faster loading, simpler workflows, and reduced dependency on specialist desktop tools. This case study outlines the problem, the approach, and what changed for planners and GIS teams.

Infrakit partnered with LumiDB to streamline its point-cloud workflows and replace file-based LOD pipeline. The integration delivered faster rendering, sub-second cross-sections, and a simpler, more stable architecture for handling large LiDAR and drone datasets. This case study outlines how the change was implemented and what improved for engineers and end users.