Building Information Modeling

8BIM, GIS: Complementarity and Convergence

Hervé HALBOUT^1,2, François ROBIDA^3,2 and Mojgan A. JADIDI⁴

¹HALBOUT Consultants, Caen, France

²Projet MINnD, Paris, France

³BRGM : Service géologique national français, Orléans, France

⁴Lassonde School of Engineering, York University, Toronto, Canada

8.1. BIM and GIS

8.1.1. Definitions

An information system is used to store, organize and structure data in digital database management systems (DBMS), to process and analyze data for the sharing and distribution of information and knowledge. Generally, data substantiate information. Geospatial data are spatial data that are geolocated relative to Earth (with geographical coordinates), making it possible to produce geographical knowledge useful for planning and analysis of our environment, infrastructures and cities. Geographic information systems (GIS) are therefore information systems (IS), to which a geospatial component (G) is added. It includes databases (with georeferenced data or location information), hardware infrastructures (servers, computers, operating system, software and business applications, etc.), a structural organization (management, service, mission, etc.), human organization (administrator, data scientist, engineers, cartographer, etc.) and overall governance (data management) (Goodchild et al. 2007). This requires implementation of specific expertise for production, management, usage, amendment, analysis and mapping of data, as well as making the data available to ...