Case Study: City of Clovis, NM completes comprehensive city-wide traffic sign inventory faster and more affordably with Mapillary

City of Clovis - Customer Case Study

The City of Clovis, NM faced a first-ever, city-wide traffic sign inventory with a one-person GIS department and no existing records—information lived in the head of a retiring employee. Hiring a contractor at $4–6 per sign was outside the budget, so GIS Specialist Steven Hewett evaluated and adopted the Mapillary platform to cost-effectively capture street-level imagery and sign data himself.

Using three action cameras, Hewett collected some 277,000 images across nearly 1,300 miles of streets and uploaded them to Mapillary; Mapillary’s computer vision automatically identified about 5,000 traffic signs. The solution let Clovis geolocate signs, check visibility and condition, and maintain up-to-date data via a Mapillary for Organizations subscription—cutting what would have been years of manual work down to months (or days with focused effort) and avoiding large contractor costs.

City of Clovis, NM

Steven Hewett

GIS Specialist