Korea’s BIM on GIS project is developing a platform for spatial interoperability

7 May 2014 Geoff Zeiss

At the Geospatial World Forum in Geneva, several geospatial-related projects from South Korea are being highlighted.  One of the most important is a five-year project conceived, sponsored and funded by the Korean Institute of Construction Technology (KICT).  The objective of the project, called BIM on GIS Interoperability Open-Platform, is to develop a software platform that enables GIS and BIM interoperability.  The project is being carried out by Korean software company Gaia3D.

BIMonGIS003Gaia3D has been prototyping a software architecture comprised of application plug-ins, desktop and web clients, 3D BIM/GIS object server, spatial RDBMS, and spatial data including BIM and GIS models.  The main functions that the software platform supports are BIM format conversion (rvt to internal) for improved performance, simultaneous spatial query and analysis for geospatial and BIM data, application APIs for facility management (FM) and energy management, interactive navigation inside and outside of buildings, control over transparency (making walls transparent, for example), and 3D visualization. BIMonGIS002 It supports large data volumes including BIM, digital terrain models, orthoimagery, photorealistic 3D visualization, textures, augmented reality, both BIM and GIS models and international standards IFC and CityGML.  The application is intended to be vendor neutral with respect to both BIM and GIS vendors.

The current prototype relies on open source geospatial software including GeoServer, World Wind SDK for Java, OpenLayers, and PostGIS.

BIMonGIS004An example that was demonstrated to me at Geospatial World Forum by Heegu Park of Gaia3D was KOPRI (Korea Polar Research Institute), who maintain a research station called King Sejong in Antarctica.  BIM models were developed for the 35 buildings of the research station and integrated with geospatial data including a digital terrain model and satellite imagery.  Navigation inside and outside of buildings was demonstrated, looking outide through windows, as well as removal of walls and rooves to visualize inside infrastructure.

Geoff Zeiss

Geoff Zeiss

Geoff Zeiss has more than 20 years experience in the geospatial software industry and 15 years experience developing enterprise geospatial solutions for the utilities, communications, and public works industries. His particular interests include the convergence of BIM, CAD, geospatial, and 3D. In recognition of his efforts to evangelize geospatial in vertical industries such as utilities and construction, Geoff received the Geospatial Ambassador Award at Geospatial World Forum 2014. Currently Geoff is Principal at Between the Poles, a thought leadership consulting firm. From 2001 to 2012 Geoff was Director of Utility Industry Program at Autodesk Inc, where he was responsible for thought leadership for the utility industry program. From 1999 to 2001 he was Director of Enterprise Software Development at Autodesk. He received one of ten annual global technology awards in 2004 from Oracle Corporation for technical innovation and leadership in the use of Oracle. Prior to Autodesk Geoff was Director of Product Development at VISION* Solutions. VISION* Solutions is credited with pioneering relational spatial data management, CAD/GIS integration, and long transactions (data versioning) in the utility, communications, and public works industries. Geoff is a frequent speaker at geospatial and utility events around the world including Geospatial World Forum, Where 2.0, MundoGeo Connect (Brazil), Middle East Spatial Geospatial Forum, India Geospatial Forum, Location Intelligence, Asia Geospatial Forum, and GITA events in US, Japan and Australia. Geoff received Speaker Excellence Awards at GITA 2007-2009.

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