New York Update

Welcome, or maybe (we hope) welcome back...

Last week we were invited to the US by our biggest customer Premier. The reason for our visit was two-fold. Firstly we were there to catch up on some of the new technologies we are exploring with Premier for RouteShoot, such as data capture from Google Glass and from drones.

Premier offices - Hauppauge, Long Island

The picture below shows Premier's Director of Technology, Chris Bartlett, demonstrating the preparation of one of their drones for RouteShoot video capture to our MD. 

RouteShoot takes to the skies

The second reason for our visit was to attend the Willbros "Innovation Summit" in New York. At this event, Willbros displayed some of their own technology solutions, developed in-house, for the utilities and pipeline sectors using the Google Maps Engine (GME). The event was staged to demonstrate Willbros' cutting-edge approach to data management at a time when US Codes of Federal Regulation (CFR) are placing increasing governance pressures on infrastructure management companies.

Setting up for the Willbros Innovation Summit

Attendees at the event included Willbros' clients, potential clients, senior managers and investors.

RouteShoot featured as technology partners for Geo-referenced video capture

We were really proud and privileged to feature at this event, alongside Google, as a technology partner to Willbros. We would like to extend our sincerest thanks to Marc, Chris and the whole of the Willbros/Premier team for this opportunity.

Occasional Update

Hi all,

We haven’t blogged for a little while, so it’s probably time for a quick update.

Things seem a bit quiet on the commercial front at the moment, as everyone appears to have their minds on other things – not least taking their summer vacations. But this doesn’t mean that nothing is going on. Our developers are still slogging away, but at the moment this is all on back-end stuff, so nothing we can show fancy pictures of - which is a bit of a shame.

We did get a bit of RouteShoot press coverage though, through Creative England, when our FD (and co-founder) was interviewed to tease out some advice about starting up a new company. If you would like to see his words of “wisdom” then please take a look at the article here.

We were also interviewed recently by Deloitte, on behalf of Google, in respect to how cloud computing is helping our company to grow. The report by Deloitte is still being worked on, but hopefully we’ll get some feedback we can share with you next month.

Next for us, our MD and FD are off to New York next week, as guests of our biggest client, Premier – and if we’re lucky they will get to meet some representatives of Google. Hopefully they’ll both remember to take some videos and photos, and we’ll have something more exciting to blog about next time.

Until then, we hope you’re all having great vacations. Don’t forget to RouteShoot the best bits.

Also, if you're interested in commercial use, a reminder that our free, no-obligation trial is still available. Just click here to sign up today.

RouteShoot Around Glastonbury

As promised in our last post - some RouteShoot-ing around the Glastonbury Festival site.

With one of our colleagues working on the Info points at the Glastonbury Festival this year, we took the opportunity to capture a couple of RouteShoot videos. These were recorded on the Tuesday, just a day before all of the festival-goers arrived...

A trip around the main Pyramid Stage field

A trip through the middle of the market areas

Have a good weekend everyone. - And don't forget to shoot that route if you're up to anything exciting or memorable.

Exciting New Developments

Here at RouteShoot we are constantly working to update and improve our product. Under the "coming soon" heading we are pleased to announce that we are in advanced testing of our bookmarking development.

In this forthcoming release, in addition to recording your videos and routes, you will also be able to geo-tag points of interest as you go.

In the picture below you can see the results of some early testing, where we have bookmarked the positions of lamp posts when we took a drive around the campus at the University of Exeter (where we are based).

Each red push-pin represents the position of a lamp post along this route 

Both point items and line items will be catered for in the final version of the app.

And if that wasn't enough - at the same time we are also looking to release a Bluetooth controller for this version, so you won't have to tap the screen or any buttons on your smartphone to get this to work. Once mounted (say in the windscreen of your car) you will be able to start and stop recording and geo-tag features using a small remote control.

If things keep on track we plan to have both the app and the controllers ready to go before the end of Q2.

While you are waiting for those developments to come on line, please take a minute to check out our updated website at www.routeshoot.com - and don't forget, you can still ask us for a free, no obligations trial if you are interested in the commercial version.

Oh, and one last thing, we are also expecting to get some more RouteShoot video recorded around the Glastonbury Festival site again this year. If we do, we'll post some here - so check back in regularly if you're interested in that.

Invitation to Businesses - Try RouteShoot for Free!

RouteShoot is currently in use on UK Highways Agency Area contracts, on UK Local Authority maintenance contracts, on a series of construction projects in the Philippines and with a major utilities tracing company in the US. We are also working with international consultants and utilities companies to develop opportunities in highways and pipeline projects as far afield as Australia, Canada, Nigeria and Qatar.

To find out why there is so much interest in RouteShoot, and to discover how RouteShoot can help your asset management business, click here to sign up for a free, no obligation trial today. 

RouteShoot Ltd Embarks on World Bank OpenTRIP Contract

We are pleased to announce that we are, this week, starting out on a significant project which will see the RouteShoot solution being formally trialled by the World Bank. After several months confirming the client's requirements and an initial period of on-site testing in the Philippines we are really excited to see this project get underway.

About the OpenTRIP Project

The Philippines Department of Tourism and the Department of Public Works & Highways, with the support of USAID-REID and the World Bank, are prototyping a digital mapping and imaging platform to support the timely and accountable implementation of the Tourism Roads Infrastructure Program (TRIP) for 2013-2016.

OpenTRIP is also intended to provide key tourism development stakeholders, including the private sector, with an accessible overview of TRIP implementation. The initiative also responds to the Department of Budget & Management's efforts to demonstrate good practice in M&E and transparency of flagship convergence programs, included as part of Open Government Partnership commitments.

The OpenTRIP platform will demonstrate innovations around the use of geo-tagged digital video imagery and the application of cost-effective mobile devices. Basic OpenTRIP functionality will be centred on field operated, handheld devices which will allow for the uploading of RouteShoot photo & video content. Later extensions will allow for the tagging and uploading of on-the-ground conditions.

RouteShoot add-in for ArcMap

Hi all,

Here at RouteShoot we have been working hard on developing a new tool which will allow you to integrate your RouteShoot data with ESRI's® ArcMap.

With this add-in you can add RouteShoot's route files directly into ArcMap and then launch the video straight from ArcMap in to your Windows® Media Player.

Please see the video below to see how this all works...



Currently we have tried and tested the add-in with combinations of Windows® 7 and 8 and ArcMap 10.1 and 10.2.

We are currently inviting people to beta test the plug-in, so if you would like to get hold of a free 14-day trial of this application then please contact us via this web form.