CAD AND GIS INTEGRATION
CONTENTS 1 CURRENT TRENDS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN CAD 2 CURRENT TRENDS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN GIS 3 CAD/GIS INTEGRATION: RATIONALE AND CHALLENGES 4 INTEROPERABLE METHODOLOGIES AND TECHNIQUES IN CAD 5 INTEROPERABLE METHODOLOGIES AND TECHNIQUES IN CAD-GIS INTEGRATION STANDARDIZATION EFFORTS: THE OPEN GEOSPATIAL CONSORTIUM PERSPECTIVE 6 CAD/GIS INTEGRATION ISSUES FOR SEAMLESS NAVIGATION BETWEEN INDOOR AND OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENTS 7 SEMANTICS IN CAD/GIS INTEGRATION 8 ONTOLOGIES FOR LINKING CAD/GIS 9 CAD AND GIS INTEROPERABILITY THROUGH SEMANTIC WEB SERVICES CHAPTER CURRENT TRENDS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN CAD 1 1 CAD: WHAT’S IN AN ACRONYM? CAD STANDS FOR COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN IN ITS EARLY DAYS IT STOOD FOR COMPUTER-AIDED DRAFTING OTHERS HAVE COINED ACRONYMS CONTAINING WORDS DERIVED FROM COMPUTING AND SOME OTHER APPLICATION AREA IN THE BUILDING INFRASTRUCTURE SECTOR THAT RANGE FROM CAE (COMPUTER-AIDED ENGINEERING) TO CAFM (COMPUTER-AIDED FACILITIES MANAGEMENT), WITH DOZENS OF VARIATIONS IN BETWEEN SINCE THE MIDDLE OF THE LAST CENTURY, DESIGN PROFES- SIONALS HAVE BEEN FAVORING COMPUTATIONAL APPLICATIONS IN UNPRECEDENTED NUMBERS