Simam Digital private demo

Simam Spatial Capture

Day one. A demonstration we built ourselves: anything marked sample in it is made up.

Why we built it

The hardest thing to sell is bare ground. A buyer is asked to pay instalments on a plot with nothing on it, from a plan they cannot place against the land. This is day one of a site: what the drone actually saw, with the plan laid over it and every service marked where it runs.

What you can do in it

• Stand on the bare land as the flight found it, across a square roughly 272 metres on a side
• See 61 plots fitted at their real size into the blocks of the plan rather than drawn over the top
• Follow 2.2 kilometres of streets with their 69 street lights and the four services running along each one
• Compare the ground as it is today with the pictures of how it could look finished, which are labelled as AI

What it will not tell you

The masterplan, services, phasing and pictures of the future are AI illustrations and a sample plan, standing in for a developer's approved drawings, and are labelled on every view. The AI drew plots of about 1 marla even when told the scale, so the plots are fitted by us at real sizes inside its blocks, and its thin edge strips are left empty. The buildings' designs, specifications and build times are a sample. Metres come from the parked cars, about plus or minus 15%. The 3D site and its ground are measured. A measurement taken from a capture is a guide: where a figure matters legally or commercially, the surveyed number rules, and nothing here replaces an inspection.