The Pictometry imagery displays features such as buildings, land area, roads, and hydrology to be viewed from several directions and at different scales. It will allow a user to easily locate and accurately measure any feature. The software and aerial imagery data has proven to be beneficial to assessors, planners, engineers, conservation commissions, first responders and decision-makers.

The MassHighway license agreement allows communities to receive high resolution, digital oblique imagery at different scales and directions. This will allow municipalities to receive either 2-way community small-scale images or 2-way neighborhood large-scale images.

BRPC has chosen to take on the role of being the distributor of this technology in our region. As your regional distributor of the Pictometry technology, BRPC will continue to provide our communities with professional quality services and technical assistance. In order to receive these images, municipalities must sign an Official End User Agreement and appoint one person within the municipal government to act as the liaison with BRPC.

The cost to the community is nothing. BRPC has received an internal hard drive from Pictometry for each community with their images. These hard drives will stay in each community. Each community is entitled to assistance from BRPC for installing the hard drive and software on one computer and provide basic training to the town’s liaison. The community can hire BRPC to come and install the software at additional locations or to provide additional training within the community, at a cost of $75.00/hour plus travel time and mileage to and from the community.

Neighborhood Level Oblique Image

BRPC Pictometry Brochure

Any questions regarding the imagery or the meetings can be directed to Mark Maloy at 442-1521x29 or mmaloy@berkshireplanning.org.