ABSTRACT

ABSTRACT: In 2006, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) started an initiative for gathering requirements and defining OGC Web Services that integrate information resources and workflows from the world of Architecture Engineering and Construction (AEC) with the world of Open Geospatial Web Services. While the Geospatial world has typically concerned itself with information about the out-of doors, and largely two or two-and-a-half dimensional information as would be found in maps, images and terrain models, there are many assets and activities that occur in the three dimensional context of buildings. Integration of the information resources of the AEC world with Open Geospatial Web Services will provide very important information resources for decision makers in urban environments, in situations like disaster management.