September 27, 2011: Workshop
Delft conference programme
Revised September 16, 2011
The great UDMS CityGML workshop
27 September 2011, 13,30-17:30
Course summary
CityGML enables rich 3D applications like simulations, facility management, advanced urban planning or emergency response in urban environments. It is an open standard maintained by the Open Geospatial Consortium and is a key vehicle to lift mapping data into the Geoweb. Based on a set of thematic modules such as buildings, vegetation or transportation, users can easily create their own customised application schemas and exchange data between different applications.
This workshop gives an introduction into the powerful capabilities of CityGML utilising numerous real examples and data for 3D urban objects. It will also be shown how a simple extension of CityGML (called an Application Domain Extension) can be created to include additional user requirements.
An overview how both simple and more complex 3D models can be created will be given. Quality assurance of 3D models including geometry checking and an automated correction procedure will be demonstrated. Using CityServer3D as a database management system, an end to end workflow will be shown.
During the practical part of this workshop participants will work hands-on with Safe Software's FME software to understand, read, write and convert CityGML data in order to explore CityGML's capability as a data exchange format.
What you will get out of it
At the end of this course you will
The instructors of this course are recognised international experts in the field of 3D geographic information. They are members of two of the leading industry consortia in the field of 3D city modelling, the Special Interest Group 3D and/or the Open Geospatial Consortium’s 3D Information Management and CityGML working groups:
CityGML enables rich 3D applications like simulations, facility management, advanced urban planning or emergency response in urban environments. It is an open standard maintained by the Open Geospatial Consortium and is a key vehicle to lift mapping data into the Geoweb. Based on a set of thematic modules such as buildings, vegetation or transportation, users can easily create their own customised application schemas and exchange data between different applications.
This workshop gives an introduction into the powerful capabilities of CityGML utilising numerous real examples and data for 3D urban objects. It will also be shown how a simple extension of CityGML (called an Application Domain Extension) can be created to include additional user requirements.
An overview how both simple and more complex 3D models can be created will be given. Quality assurance of 3D models including geometry checking and an automated correction procedure will be demonstrated. Using CityServer3D as a database management system, an end to end workflow will be shown.
During the practical part of this workshop participants will work hands-on with Safe Software's FME software to understand, read, write and convert CityGML data in order to explore CityGML's capability as a data exchange format.
What you will get out of it
At the end of this course you will
- understand what is special about 3D, why CityGML was created and what it can do
- have seen how simple 3D models can be created and how more complex workflows look like
- appreciate important quality aspects and how these can be tested
- know what the benefits of a modular specification are and how CityGML can be extended to meet particular requirements
- know the basics about using FME to translate 3D models
- have an appetite to do more 3D modelling
The instructors of this course are recognised international experts in the field of 3D geographic information. They are members of two of the leading industry consortia in the field of 3D city modelling, the Special Interest Group 3D and/or the Open Geospatial Consortium’s 3D Information Management and CityGML working groups:
- , Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences, Germany
- , Conterra GmbH, Germany
- , Bentley Systems, Canada
- Simon Thum, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany
