Buildings and Semantics

Chapter 4 Geometry and geospatial data on the web

Anna Wagner, Mathias Bonduel, Jeroen Werbrouck, and Kris McGlinn

DOI: 10.1201/9781003204381-5

CONTENTS

1. 4.1 Introduction
2. 4.2 Geometry and geospatial data
   1. 4.2.1 Terminology
   2. 4.2.2 Importance of geometry and geospatial data to AEC
      1. 4.2.2.1 Integration in traditional BIM
      2. 4.2.2.2 Challenges in traditional BIM
3. 4.3 Integrating geometry and geospatial data in a web context
   1. 4.3.1 Approach 1: RDF-based geometry descriptions
      1. 4.3.1.1 Lists in RDF
   2. 4.3.2 Approach 2: JSON-LD for web geometry
   3. 4.3.3 Approach 3: Non-RDF geometry as RDF literals
   4. 4.3.4 Approach 4: Linking to Non-RDF geometry files
   5. 4.3.5 Multiple geometry descriptions
4. 4.4 Existing implementations for integration of graphs
   1. 4.4.1 Ontology ...