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Comparison of Standard- and Proprietary-Based Approaches to Detailed 3D City Mapping

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3D information is essential for a number of applications used daily in various domains such as facility management, including energy management, urban planning, telecommunications, and safety and security, etc.

This paper is devoted to 3D modelling at the level of city districts with the campus and buildings modelling use case. Different methods and technologies commonly used in this area are first analysed and discussed. Emphasis is placed on the comparison of the standardized approach, represented by the CityGML (City Geography Markup Language), and proprietary technologies (developed by Masaryk University as a part of facility management called the Building Documentation System). This comparison is demonstrated on a sample 3D model of the Faculty of Science at Masaryk University in Brno, the Czech Republic, situated on Kotlářská Street. Both types of 3D models were developed while focusing on their benefits and limitations.

The conclusions drawn from the study present a concept of 3D city mapping with an emphasis on where the use of CityGML reaches its limits and the point from which proprietary-based solutions should be implemented. Recommendations on future CityGML development are given at the end of the article. Some of our current recommendations have been incorporated into version 2.0 of the CityGML implementation specification by the Open Geospatial Consortium. Furthermore, we are participating in the ongoing development of CityGML version 3.0.

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    http://geogr.muni.cz/plan-gu-eng.

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    http://www.sci.muni.cz/cz/Kontakty/Mapka-arealu-Kotlarska.

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Acknowledgments

This research has been supported by funding from Masaryk University grant No. MUNI/A/0952/2013, entitled ‘Analysis, evaluation, and visualization of global environmental changes in the landscape sphere’. The authors would like to thank the Facility Management Division of the University Campus at Masaryk University for consultation on the parts devoted to the Building Documentation System.

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Herman, L., Kýnová, A., Russnák, J., Řezník, T. (2015). Comparison of Standard- and Proprietary-Based Approaches to Detailed 3D City Mapping. In: Brus, J., Vondrakova, A., Vozenilek, V. (eds) Modern Trends in Cartography. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07926-4_11

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