Open data, done properly
USGS LiDAR, OpenStreetMap, aerial imagery, county parcels and a street-level photo survey, combined into one model, with every source credited on screen.
ABOUT · FRAME ANALYTICS GROUP, LLC
We make GeoFrame: the real place, in 3D, in a browser.
Frame Analytics is a small engineering company in San Luis Obispo County, California. We build GeoFrame, which turns public data into measured 3D models of real neighborhoods for the people who decide what gets built.
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WHY GEOFRAME
Most arguments about a building start after it's framed.
Before that, commissioners and neighbors read plan sets. Architects buy, trace or skip a context model of the block. Developers judge a site from a flat parcel map. Then the frame goes up, and the first complaint is about a view nobody checked.
The data to do better is already public. The USGS has flown LiDAR over the country, OpenStreetMap maps footprints and streets, and counties publish parcels, addresses and zoning. What was missing was a fast, honest way to put it together into one model of a real place, without a GIS department or a workstation lab.
That is GeoFrame. Pick a square of the map, and it comes back as measured 3D terrain with buildings at their real heights, streets, trees, water and the property records behind them, ready to study, edit and share in a browser.
We started at home. San Luis Obispo County is fully set up, and every district on this site, from Avila Beach and Cal Poly to Santa Margarita, Cambria and Guadalupe, was built entirely from open data, with nothing traced by hand.
WHAT WE BELIEVE
Honest about gaps
What the data can't see is estimated and labeled as estimated. GeoFrame is a credible planning model, and we never sell it as a survey.
Nothing to install
GeoFrame runs in desktop browsers, on iPad and on phones, with quality that adapts to the device.
Your data, where you want it
Maps are private until you share them. For agencies that keep data in-house, GeoFrame installs as a single package on your own server and never phones home.
Built where we live
San Luis Obispo County is fully set up today. We add counties on request, starting with the people who ask.
We run what we ship
We operate our own build servers and production hosts, and we design releases, backups and rollback alongside every feature.
BUILT FROM OPEN DATA
Places we have modelled so far.
Each one is a live GeoFrame district. Nobody traced a footprint or placed a tree.
- Avila BeachSan Luis Obispo County
- Cal Poly campusSan Luis Obispo
- Morro BaySan Luis Obispo County
- Santa MargaritaSan Luis Obispo County
- Harmony ValleySan Luis Obispo County
- CambriaSan Luis Obispo County
- CayucosSan Luis Obispo County
- TempletonSan Luis Obispo County
- Laguna LakeSan Luis Obispo
- San Luis Obispo Country ClubEdna Valley
- GuadalupeSanta Barbara County
- Gaviota CoastSanta Barbara County
WHO WE BUILD FOR
Anyone who has to show a place before it changes.
City and county planning
Show residents a proposal on the streets they actually walk, before the hearing.
Architects and developers
Study massing in real context, measured from LiDAR rather than guessed.
Real-estate marketing
Sell the neighborhood along with the listing.
Teachers
Students model their own town in a browser, with no workstation lab.
Tourism boards and chambers
Flyover clips of downtowns and coastlines, made from the real place.
Community groups
Show what a proposed project would really look like before you speak at the meeting.
THE COMPANY
- Company
- Frame Analytics Group, LLC
- Based in
- San Luis Obispo County, California
- Product
- GeoFrame
- Runs
- In the browser, or on your own server
- Careers
- We're hiring