Re: [emergency-rim] Reminder: Meeting Today

[Rex Brooks <rex.brooks@ncoic.org>]

Thanks Lew,

I appreciate it.

This will work out fine for that community of interest.

Cheers,
Rex

On 3/8/2012 12:57 PM, Leinenweber, Lewis wrote:
> Rex,
> I will work to assemble relevant materials for this area from OGC and
> related sources. By the way, I will be attending the OGC's Technical
> Committee meeting the week of 19-23 Mar where many of the key
> contributors for these efforts in the past and on-going (CityGML in
> particular) will be meeting face-to-face to conduct the business of
> their specification and domain working groups. I will try to get a
> refresh on work in progress and future of plans for new or enhanced
> standards, etc.
>
> Regards,
> Lew Leinenweber
> SE Solutions, Inc.
> 301.351.4485
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rex Brooks [mailto:rex.brooks@ncoic.org]
> Sent: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:58 PM
> To: Leinenweber, Lewis
> Cc: rex.brooks@ncoic.org; emergency-rim@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [emergency-rim] Reminder: Meeting Today
>
> Thanks Lew,
>
> Personally, I have worked on this with several groups, specifically
> attempting to put together a standards effort to develop an Open Floor
> Plan Display/Exchange (OFPD/X) which has limped along till now, so I am
> aware of these resources. However, I think that if you could think about
>
> taking on this area with an eye toward compiling the most important or
> significant available material, I will certainly include it in the
> ValueList Ontologies I'm compiling. I will be buried in RM for some time
>
> to come, then I'll be takingon the FEMA Resource Typing material, so if
> you could take on this domain, particularly CityGML, it would be really
> great. I actually came into Human-based standards from the old VRML
> Consortium, now the X3D Consortium, so I'm familiar with cartesian
> coordinate 3D systems.
>
> Thanks again,
> Rex
>
> On 3/8/2012 9:00 AM, Leinenweber, Lewis wrote:
> > Rex and all,
> > Sorry, I will not be able to attend the RIM meeting today. However, I
> > thought I would share some thoughts about work that relates to your
> > message below with respect to "... the evolving domain of the
> > built-environment, e.g. interior spaces, and the transition/interface
> > from Geospatial to Building-specific information."
> >
> > You might find it interesting to know that OGC has been working on to
> > solve similar issues and to create standards to address the
> > built-environment through their CityGML standards work. This effort
> has
> > included collaboration with Architecture and Engineering community in
> > 2005 and even earlier to integrate with the Building Information Model
> > (BIM) standards that carries very detail information about the
> > construction of buildings, down to the lowest level of details
> required
> > for design and construction. This collaboration has been demonstrated
> > whereby geographic information has been brought together with CAD
> model
> > data to produce a detailed 3-dimensional view that transitions from
> > geospatial 3-D (geographic locations and CityGML 3-D structures to
> > building interiors.
> >
> > I can provide some additional information, resources and discussion to
> > follow-up later if there is interest.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Lew Leinenweber
> > SE Solutions, Inc.
> > 301.351.4485
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: emergency-rim@lists.oasis-open.org
> > [mailto:emergency-rim@lists.oasis-open.org] On Behalf Of Rex Brooks
> > Sent: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 11:20 AM
> > To: emergency-rim@lists.oasis-open.org
> > Subject: [emergency-rim] Reminder: Meeting Today
> >
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > This is a reminder that we have a meeting scheduled today. Even though
> I
> > haven't had time to complete the next stage in the ValueList Ontology,
> > we can continue our conversations on the merits of various kinds of
> > ontologies, and I can relate how this effort reflects a number of
> other
> > applications and capabilities being explored in NCOIC and locally in
> the
> > FEMA Grant work for Marin County Fire.Chiefs Association. The fact
> that
> > is that our work needs to extend over a wider domain that includes
> as-is
> > data that conforms to no specific categorization or classification
> > schemes.This is the same issue that affects the evolving domain of the
> > built-environment, e.g. interior spaces, and the transition/interface
> > from Geospatial to Building-specific information.
> >
> > This is not a domain that any one group from the Contractors and
> > Architects community to Real Estate Owner/Operators to Emergency
> > Management is going to provide the end-all be-all standard. In fact,
> > this is a direct challenge to our ValueList and Supporting Elements
> > structure.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Rex


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