IFC to GIS

Hello,

We are trying to optimize the workflow for transferring geometry and information from IFC to the GIS system. Does anyone have any experience to share on this topic?

Hello @PepaR

The question is very general, but this is a good resource for IFC and GIS

David

Hi @dalvarez and @PepaR
Thanks for the link, but the article describes mostly the collaboration between Autodesk and Esri platform, both proprietary software vendors. There is a paper from 2021 on OGC.org about the possibilities to transform data between IFC and GML. The objective is only about buildings as IFC 4.3 was not released at that time. It is interesting to know how far they are now. You will find the paper her: [19-091r2_Built_environment_data_standards_and_their_integration_an_analysis_of_IFC_CityGML_and_LandInfra.pdf](file:///C:/Users/gimo/Downloads/19-091r2_Built_environment_data_standards_and_their_integration_an_analysis_of_IFC_CityGML_and_LandInfra.pdf.

There is more involvement of GIS than the other way around.

GeoBIM benchmark

As a matter of fact i am testing a tool called ‘IFC envelope Extractor’ from TU Delft
Makes really neat outershells.

Several actors in the field of land management are developing their own approaches to this integration, transferring topographic bases to IFC and generating urban IFC models. This process has been implemented in Catalonia (as demonstrated in a referenced video), by AMB (Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona). At a Spanish level, AMB also leads the development of a national standard (hopefully in the future it could be international) about the transformation of topographic bases to the IFC data schema. (initially from IFC2x3).

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