InterMap
InterMap is a Hungarian mobile mapping suite whose AI spots traffic signs, hydrants, drains and potholes in survey imagery and drops them onto a municipal GIS map, letting councils inventory up to 100 km of road a day.
What is InterMap?
InterMap is the mapping and GIS suite of InterMap Kft., a Budapest company that has been on the Hungarian market since 1999 and works on mobile mapping, 3D reconstruction and geographic information systems for local authorities. The offer is best understood as three parts that feed into one another. The first is GeoMeter, the survey hardware. Three components clamp together in a few minutes: a rugged head carrying high-resolution cameras and an INS module accurate to the centimetre, a Blackbox computer powerful enough to process the images in real time, and a Controller running InterMap's own software for steering the survey and watching the imagery come in. The head mounts on the roof rack of an ordinary car, which is what allows the company's headline claim: over 100 kilometres of public road recorded in a day, with traffic running normally and no road closures. The second is the artificial intelligence, sold as the ForteMapAI module. It frames objects in the survey photographs by type, then inserts each one on the map as a point of interest carrying its true geographic position. Traffic signs, fire hydrants, drains and potholes are the examples the company gives. A review step lets an operator confirm or correct what was inserted, and a learning-data generation function lets the customer feed corrected examples back so the model can be taught further. The third is ForteMap itself, the GIS where the results live. It integrates cadastral base maps, regulation plans, orthophotos and utility drawings; manages point, line and polygon objects; holds an address and topographic-number register; prints to scale; builds thematic maps; and applies permissions per user group. Point clouds can be measured, cross-sectioned and turned into elevation models, and surveys can be walked virtually along the recorded trail. Around these sit a drone survey service and a white-labelled Smart City citizen app. Deployments include a dozen Hungarian towns, the M3 and M6 motorways, and surveys as far afield as Istanbul and Tashkent.
What it does
- Survey more than 100 km of public road in a single day, without closing a single lane
- Detect traffic signs, hydrants, drains and potholes automatically in the survey imagery
- Place every recognised object on the map as a positioned point of interest
- Hold a municipality's assets, regulation plans and address register in one GIS platform
- Measure distances, areas, angles and volumes inside a 3D point cloud
- Produce point clouds, 3D models, HD orthophotos, digital elevation models and positioned images
- Run two-way communication with residents through the Smart City application
When to use InterMap / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if InterMap is the right fit.
When to use InterMap
- Local councils that have to keep an up-to-date register of their roads and street assets
- Road managers who need to inventory signage across a whole network without closing lanes
- Utility operators tracking public lighting, drainage and buried networks on a single map
- Urban planners and chief architects working from street-level imagery and regulation plans
- Surveyors and engineering consultancies that need point clouds, orthophotos and cross-sections
When not to use InterMap
- Individuals and small businesses with no spatial assets to inventory
- Buyers who want to compare published prices before speaking to anyone
- Development teams looking for a public API to build their own tooling on
- Organisations that expect to sign up themselves, or to trial the product free of charge first
- Procurement teams that need to read a privacy policy, terms and a DPA before any contact
How to use InterMap
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Agree the scope with InterMap and define the road sections to be surveyed
- Mount the GeoMeter head on the roof rack of a vehicle
- Connect the head to the Blackbox computer and to the Controller
- Start recording the route from the Controller's touchscreen
- Follow the survey live, with feedback, information and images arriving as they are captured
- Import the recorded data using the Loader desktop application
- Export it into ForteMap, or out to another system
- Let the ForteMapAI module detect and locate the objects in the imagery
- Check the automatically inserted points and correct any that are wrong
- Work the results in ForteMap: measure, cut cross-sections, tour virtually, print to scale
Pros & Cons
Pros
- More than 100 km of road surveyed per day, with no road closures or temporary signage
- The AI removes a large share of the manual field inventory work
- Hardware, AI processing, GIS and citizen app all come from a single supplier
- The customer can keep teaching the model through the learning-data generation function
- An unusually detailed public reference list, quoted with distances town by town
- Proven outside Hungary, including on non-European signage in Istanbul and Tashkent
- The four packages are cumulative, so the investment can be staged over time
Cons
- No published pricing at all: every figure has to come through a quote
- No privacy policy, terms and conditions or legal notice anywhere on the site
- Nothing published about data hosting, retention, subprocessors or a data processing agreement
- No public API and no developer documentation
- No free plan, no free trial and no self-service way in
- Site and product documentation available in Hungarian and English only
- Road surveying needs the on-vehicle hardware, not merely a software subscription
Pricing & Plans
InterMap publishes no prices. Every product page ends on a Request offer call to action, and the company advertises neither a free plan nor a free trial. The single economic figure it does state is a payback threshold: it says the GeoMeter device pays for itself once 1,000 kilometres of road have been surveyed. Hardware and the ForteMap GIS can be acquired separately or together, as Kecskemét did. A budget can therefore only be established through direct contact with the vendor.
- ECO — survey of the settlement's roads
- virtual tour along the positioned photographs
- and the type and position of traffic signs
- fire hydrants
- traffic lights and drains. No published price.
- OPTIMUM — everything in ECO
- plus the nature of the drainage method and the public lighting data. No published price.
- OPTIMUM+ — everything in OPTIMUM
- plus the type and position of miscellaneous objects such as flower boxes and points of sale
- the traffic order
- and the designated pedestrian crossings. No published price.
- PRO — requires ECO to be in place
- adds a 3D point cloud and an orthophoto of the busier sections
- on which measurements and analyses can be performed. No published price.
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how InterMap handles your data.
GDPR overview
InterMap Kft. is established in Budapest, so its activity falls within the territorial scope of the GDPR. Beyond that, the site makes no GDPR statement of any kind: there is no privacy policy, no terms and conditions, no legal notice and no cookie policy anywhere on it, and no data protection officer is named. A Cookie information banner appears on every page but links to no document, while Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics are loaded all the same. The company therefore neither claims nor denies compliance, and nothing published online settles the question. Any buyer with a compliance requirement should ask the vendor for the documentation directly before engaging.
Data retention & training
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting InterMap.
- Survey vehicles photograph public streets continuously, yet nothing on the site addresses the blurring of faces or number plates — a council must satisfy itself that residents' images are handled lawfully
- With no privacy policy, terms or legal notice published, there is no document to review before a contract is negotiated
- Nothing is published about where data is hosted, how long it is kept, or which third parties process it
- The AI is presented as highly accurate but the platform still ships an insertion-check step: accepting the output unreviewed would push errors straight into a public asset register
- A register that looks authoritative can quietly discourage the field verification that used to catch mistakes, and errors then persist because nobody expects them
- Because pricing is quote-only, comparing InterMap against alternatives requires committing to a sales process rather than reading a page
- Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics run on a site whose cookie banner links to no policy at all
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Setup is vendor-led rather than self-service. On the hardware side the GeoMeter is designed to assemble in a few minutes: the head goes on a vehicle's roof rack and connects to the Blackbox and the Controller. On the software side ForteMap is a web interface described as easy to use, configurable with user groups and permissions. Photogrammetric and AI processing stays inside InterMap's own chain rather than the customer's. For the Smart City app the company says it personalises the application and assists with installation and operation. The real prerequisite is a vehicle and the survey hardware.
Deployment
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Behind InterMap
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Frequently asked questions
What exactly is the artificial intelligence doing here?
Which objects can it recognise?
Does the road have to be closed for a survey?
What equipment is required?
How much does it cost?
Is there a free trial?
Is there an API?
What does the site say about personal data?
Can the Smart City app be downloaded from an app store?
Where has the system actually been deployed?
Should you pick InterMap?
InterMap is a vertical tool, not a general-purpose assistant, and it should be judged on that basis. It answers one specific problem well: building and maintaining an accurate register of road and street infrastructure, at a pace manual survey cannot match. The strength lies in owning the whole chain — the vehicle-mounted hardware that captures the imagery, the AI that recognises and positions the objects, and the GIS in which the result is exploited. Very few suppliers offer all three, and the customer is spared the integration work of stitching them together. Maturity is not in doubt. The company has been trading since 1999, its reference list is long and quoted in kilometres rather than logos, and two publicly funded R&D programmes stand behind the AI mapping device. Surveys in Istanbul and Tashkent show the recognition model copes with signage it was not designed around. The reservation is documentary rather than technical. The site publishes no prices, no privacy policy, no terms and conditions and no legal notice, and says nothing about where data is hosted, how long it is kept, or who else processes it. For a supplier whose vehicles photograph public streets continuously and whose customers are public bodies, that silence is the thing to resolve first — not because it implies bad practice, but because a council cannot document what it has not been told. Expect a sales conversation rather than a sign-up page, budget for hardware as well as software, and ask for the contractual documentation early. For a municipality with a road network to inventory, the case is strong; for anyone wanting to evaluate a product independently before making contact, there is very little to go on.
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