Wednesday, November 19. 2008

BIM/GIS Integration

The focus in this session was the increasing need to integrate building information models and GIS. The first speaker, Don Murray of Safe Software, talked about the need to address 3D BIM data as a new data type. "From our standpoint, BIM to GIS is just another kind of spatial data transform – [our job is to get users] to be able to move it around to where they want it – we had vector and then raster, and now we have this 3D BIM stuff," he said.

Keith Cooke of ESRI and Steve Milroy of Microsoft gave the next presentation as a tag-team. The duo discussed how ESRI's products integrate with Microsoft Virtual Earth. Essentially, you can think of ArcGIS as doing the analytical "heavy lifting" on the back end, and Virtual Earth as a 2D- and 3D-based visualization tool to help make decisions. Milroy offered the example of a plume model in downtown San Francisco.

David Kingsbury of Autodesk made some bold statements about the 3D revolution. He said, "We are right now on the verge of a whole new paradigm of using spatial data. … In the next 5-7 years, we will think of everything in a 3D context, in an object context. … It's a requirement that CAD, BIM, GIS, visualization and collaboration come together now." He also addressed how the GIS industry is relating to this change: "There's a big of a firestorm among the vendors right now rushing to [prepared for] this switch to 3D."

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