[Buildingdata] Modelling University Sites and Buildings (Geographically with Linked Data)

[Andy Turner]

Hi

The recent discussion about levels has got me thinking about this some
more, so I had a look around and thought I would send an email.

I found the following paper which unites the IFC and CityGML Building
Models which may be of interest:
http://www.digitalearth-isde.org/Bulgaria/pdf/32_El-Mekawy_Sweden_paper.pdf

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the
proposed Version 1.1
(https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files?artifact_id=45127) of the OGC
City Geography Markup Language (CityGML) Encoding Standard
(http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/82). I presume there
has been some regard of CityGML already by this group, but I may be
wrong. Anyway, it is surely worth a closer look and perhaps it is also
worth responding to the public comment (due by September 14th)...

The main things that have me thinking are access and classifying all
regions within a site including all regions inside buildings. Most
regions within most buildings are rooms of some stripe. Stairwells,
lifts, ventilation and other utility regions are not necessarily
rooms, but I can see that corridors can be regarded as a special type
of room. On the outside of buildings, access in regions varies and it
is or can be very 3D also. For access, there are also as many access
levels, including public access and much of what is publicly
accessible will vary according to opening hours for both the public
and different type of users...

Also, looking on the OpenStreetMap research wiki
(http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Research), I found these which are
also good for inspiration:
http://vis.cs.umd.edu/map/
http://map.epfl.ch/

Andy