OGC is seeking sponsors for Phase 2 of its Future Cities Pilot Project
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OGC is seeking sponsors for Phase 2 of its Future Cities Pilot Project

Phase 2 of OGC’s Future City Pilot aims to improve the automation of the flow of data between GIS and BIM systems, as well as address a number of related interoperability challenges.

14 December 2017: The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is seeking interested Sponsors to define the challenges for Phase 2 of the successful Future Cities Pilot Project.

As the operation and planning of cities increasingly relies on 3D geo-information in their processes, and apply Building Information Models (BIM) paradigms to their information management approach, efficient information flow in both directions between geospatial systems (GIS) and the Architecture/Engineering/Construction (AEC) systems becomes increasingly important. This requires data to be interoperable, which requires common - and ideally open - standards.

Completed in 2017, the Future City Pilot, Phase 1 (FCP1) demonstrated that interoperability between CityGML and BIM Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) works well in practice, and showed clear benefits in three use cases: urban planning; social care; and flood modelling. However, to achieve success, a significant amount of manual intervention needed to be employed.

Phase 2 of the Future City Pilot (FCP2) aims to improve the automation of the flow of data, as well as address a number of related interoperability challenges, including:

A video summary of FCP1 is available here. The Engineering Reports documenting the main outcomes of FCP1 are available at www.opengeospatial.org/projects/initiatives/fcp1.

Sponsorship of the Future City Pilot will provide the following benefits to sponsoring organisations:

There are three main deliverables resulting from an OGC pilot:

The scope of this pilot as currently planned will include the demonstration of a common architecture and data model in multiple cities. The number of cities used for the demonstration will depend upon the sponsor requirements.

If you want an innovative solution to your organisation’s Geospatial & BIM data interoperability problem, OGC urges you to contact Bart De Lathouwer, Director of OGC’s Innovation Program Email Contact.

About the OGC Innovation Program

The OGC Innovation Program provides global, hands-on, collaborative prototyping for rapid development and delivery of proven candidate specifications to the OGC Standards Program, where these candidates can then be considered for further action. In Innovation Program initiatives, participants team together to solve specific geo-processing interoperability problems posed by the initiative’s Sponsors. These initiatives include testbeds, pilot projects, interoperability experiments, and interoperability support services – all designed to encourage rapid development, testing, validation and adoption of open, consensus-based standards. More information on the OGC Innovation Program, including its policies and procedures, can be found at http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/policies/ippp.

 

About OGC

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is an international consortium of more than 525 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards. OGC standards support interoperable solutions that ‘geo-enable’ the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT. OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful within any application that needs to be geospatially enabled. Visit the OGC website at www.opengeospatial.org.

 

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