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on Friday September 07, @08:05AM
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The Between the Poles blog runs a long entry on the challenges facing the construction industry, with a section on information and GIS. From the entry: "Disciplines such as architecture, structural engineering, construction, civil engineering, and GIS are classic information silos. Each maintains its own information island comprised of design applications and data. This has created a nightmare for operations and maintenance, emergency planners and responders, urban planners, and others who require seamless access to urban terrain including building interiors and exteriors, roads and highways, and above ground and underground utilities. [...] The engineering group uses CAD applications, construction uses large format paper, the records or network documentation group may use GIS tools, and operations uses paper or a handheld viewer. The information flow between these groups is more often than not paper. The result is a very inefficient process characterized by data redundancy, redundant processes, and poor data quality." Also interesting is Vector One's entry on physical boundaries, CAD and GIS and more specifically this one on the role of 3D in both CAD and GIS worlds.
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