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Chapter 17
Handbook of Research on Building Information Modeling and Construction Informatics: Concepts and Technologies
OGC Web Service includes WMS, WFS, W3DS, WCS - the OGC web services are defined in order to provide open standard interfaces in order to exchange geospatial data between systems. The various services provided fulfil specific tasks: one of the most prominent ones is the Web Map Service that can be used to query map data (images) from a server. The Web Feature Service, for example provides ‘raw’ geospatial features that can be analysed, converted and used for other purposes than map display. Because the definitions are publicly available, they can be used to link systems and are a popular way to generate ‘geospatial mash-ups’.
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BIM Integration with Geospatial Information within the Urban Built Environment
Hongxia Wang (University of Salford, UK) and Andy Hamilton (University of Salford, UK)
Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 23
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-928-1.ch017
Abstract
In the construction industry, BIM is enabling the information sharing and integration practise culture to emerge. Consideration of the geo-location is essential at the design and planning stage for building construction. It is important to integrate BIM with surrounding geo-spatial information which will not only benefit the construction industry in getting site information, but also help urban management in getting building details in the city. This chapter reports the emerging efforts on BIM integration with geospatial information within the urban built environment. The authors have been working on the design and development of the integration framework of BIM and geospatial information. In this framework, a BIM web service, Building Feature Service (BFS), is defined to retrieve building objects and elements information based on OGC’s Web Service. This framework can extend the scope of BIM to the urban built environment to support life cycle information services for both city management and the construction industry.
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