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Building Information Modeling
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Building Information Modeling

by Régine Teulier, Marie Bagieu
January 2024
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
256 pages
6h 29m
English
Wiley-ISTE
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8BIM, GIS: Complementarity and Convergence

Hervé HALBOUT1,2, François ROBIDA3,2 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 ...

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