Have you seen a City of Ottawa SUV driving around the city with a camera on it?
The Mosaic Meridian got a moment in the spotlight on local Ottawa news as city officials implement Smart City technology.
Local Governments
How Mosaic’s 360° cameras for local governments are benefiting towns around the world
Client testimonials
I compared four cameras for our county. On every single metric, the Mosaic 51 beat out its competitors: its image quality is best, it came with a powerful script to stitch the imagery together and save us enormous amounts of processing time, and the imagery is nonproprietary so it comes in seamlessly to our ESRI software.
My second choice of camera was over four times the cost of the Mosaic 51. Best of all, though, is the Mosaic team. They’ve helped me every step of the way, and I feel like I have new colleagues on the other side of the world. Buying this camera was one of the easiest decisions I’ve ever made.”
My second choice of camera was over four times the cost of the Mosaic 51. Best of all, though, is the Mosaic team. They’ve helped me every step of the way, and I feel like I have new colleagues on the other side of the world. Buying this camera was one of the easiest decisions I’ve ever made.”
We now have a head start on the new developments happening across Dakhla, and it’s a relief to know that we will be able to keep up with the city’s rapid expansion in terms of data, enforcement, and citizen complaints. We’re now able to react more quickly to public disorder, illegal buildings, and settlements. This is a major improvement for the government-business-citizen relationship, especially as the city works to attract more tourism and international investment.
Why choose Mosaic for local government services?
See your city the way your citizens do
Aerial imagery and satellite data have long been the default tools for city mapping – but people don’t live from the sky. Local governments need to understand their cities at street level: the condition of a pavement, the visibility of a road sign, whether a streetlight is working, or how much public space a business is occupying.
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Mosaic cameras give local governments a ground-level view of everything in the right-of-way – captured quickly, across the entire road network, and detailed enough to read street numbers, assess asset conditions, and feed directly into GIS and asset management workflows.
Do more with limited resources
Local governments consistently face the same challenge: large geographic areas to manage, finite budgets, and not enough people to be everywhere at once. Mosaic cameras let small teams cover an entire municipality quickly, capturing a detailed visual record of roads, assets, and public spaces that would otherwise require months of manual fieldwork.
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Staff can assess conditions, respond to citizen complaints, verify compliance, and plan maintenance from the office – reducing the time and cost of field visits while making sure resources go where they’re genuinely needed most.
Ground-truth data that improves services for citizens
The best decisions about a community come from understanding how people actually live and move through it. 360° street-level imagery from Mosaic camera systems gives local governments that ground-truth perspective – the ability to remotely assess conditions, verify complaints, monitor public space usage, and identify issues before they escalate into citizen complaints or costly repairs.
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The same dataset can serve multiple departments simultaneously, from taxation and code enforcement to public works and urban planning, without anyone needing to return to the field. When city staff can do more from their desks with data they trust, residents get faster, more responsive services.
Videos: News story from the City of Ottawa about the Mosaic Meridian
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Real-Life Stories: Mosaic camera systems in local government surveying projects
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Whether at the town or city level, Mosaic 360° cameras are helping collect, evaluate, and garner insight from data about their communities to better serve local businesses and citizens.
