History

Our History

The SitePhotos story began with a simple goal: to make capturing and retrieving site photographs effortless. Traditional systems forced photographers to rename every image and file them into nested folders—a tedious chore that discouraged field staff from taking pictures or, worse, from uploading them.

Our answer was radical simplicity: let crews dump every photo into a single folder while the platform automatically extracts GPS coordinates and capture time from each image’s metadata. With geotagging enabled on their device, teams can now snap away without any extra steps.

To visualize this growing library, we built an interactive map interface using the Google Maps API. The application places an icon at each photo’s exact location, and users can filter by date range or photographer, zoom to any part of the project, and click an icon to open a high‑resolution image. The result? Field‑photo volume skyrocketed, by more than seven‑fold, because the burden shifted from photographer to viewer.

Drone adoption unlocked the next leap. We integrated orthorectified imagery (stitched, distortion‑free mosaics aligned to real‑world coordinates) providing an up‑to‑date, measurable basemap of site conditions. Soon after, we added the ability to import CAD layers, developing export tools that push data straight from AutoCAD onto our map.

These innovations unfolded in real time on active infrastructure projects, where crews became our co‑designers, feeding us a steady stream of feature requests. The platform has come a long way since those early photo sorting days but we have retained the name SitePhotos. Today it powers three specialised software products:

OverSite, CivilExport, and GDPermit

alongside a suite of services that keep linear infrastructure projects on track.