ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: In order to facilitate some urban management tasks, information regarding buildings needs to be represented in form of geospatial information. Some tasks in urban management such as indoor navigation, emergency response management, and processes in the construction life cycle e.g., site selection can be facilitated through the use of certain and sometimes high amount of, geometric and semantic information about a building. A Building Information Model (BIM) can be defined as a semantically rich shared 3D digital building model. Recent research has demonstrated that geometric and semantic information from BIMs can be transferred into the geospatial environment and CAD/GIS/BIM information can be integrated at web services level. This paper presents a comparative opportunity analysis on the future role of BIMs in Urban Data Management. The analysis presented was focused on exploring, the impact of progression in Building Information Modeling research, to the opportunities provided by the use of BIMs in Urban Data Management context.
