Harmonising the OGC Standards for the Built Environment

A CityGML Extension for LandInfra

Journal article (2019)

Authors

Kavisha Kumar Urban Data Science - Architecture and the Built Environment
A. Labetski Urban Data Science - Architecture and the Built Environment
G.A.K. Arroyo Ohori Urban Data Science - Architecture and the Built Environment
H. Ledoux Urban Data Science - Architecture and the Built Environment
J.E. Stoter Urban Data Science - Architecture and the Built Environment
Research Group
Urban Data Science (Architecture and the Built Environment) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2019 Kavisha Kumar, A. Labetski, G.A.K. Arroyo Ohori, H. Ledoux, J.E. Stoter
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi8060246
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Published Date

2019

Language

English

Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Department

Urbanism

Research Group

Urban Data Science

Abstract

The relatively new Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standard LandInfra documents in its data model land and civil engineering infrastructure features. It has a Geography Markup Language (GML) implementation, OGC InfraGML, which has essentially no software support and is rarely used in practice. In order to share the benefits of LandInfra (and InfraGML) with a wider public, we have created the Infra Application Domain Extension (ADE), a CityGML ADE that allows us to store LandInfra features in CityGML. In this paper, we semantically map LandInfra to CityGML, describe our ADE, and discuss a few used cases where our ADE can be useful for applications for the built environment. We also provide software to automatically convert datasets from InfraGML to CityGML (and our ADE), and vice versa, as well as to validate them, which will help practitioners generate real-world InfraGML datasets.