Digital City Models Offer Many Benefits
BUDAPEST/Munich/Darmstadt, January 16, 2003 – Graphisoft®,
a leading provider of design and building information management solutions,
and GIStec/Frauenhofer Institute today announced an agreement to cooperate in
developing solutions for 3D city modeling and GIS technologies.
GIStec, a spin-off of the Fraunhofer Institute for Graphic Data Processing
in Darmstadt, concluded a long-term partnership agreement with Graphisoft Germany
for the development of applications and customized solutions. The new applications
will integrate GIStec’s In3D with Graphisoft’s Archicad® Virtual
Building technology, with benefits for city modeling projects and GIS
(Geographic Information Systems).
Areas of cooperation between the two firms extend to joint marketing and sales
activities. The agreement anticipates developing a 3D GIS System that integrates
GIStec’s experience in data management of automated real estate maps (ARM)
and 3D visualization in RealTime with the outstanding 3D modeling capacities
of Graphisoft’s Archicad®. The 3D GIS System will produce a full range
of added benefits for applications such as land registers and 3D modeling of
buildings and facilities, and will achieve bi-directional integration of the
Virtual Building by the CADD (Computer Aided Drawing & Documentation) data.
Architects will be able to acquire comprehensive digital data of an existing
construction site in 3D from the building authorities, and then integrate their
building design and alternative suggestions into the digital city model. The
3D GIS System’s advantages will extend to visualizations for public debates,
3D navigation of automobiles, mobile phones or PDAs, disaster management, noise
pollution register, and tourist information on the Internet.
Graphisoft Archicad’s open data structure and file exchange, such as
the IFC 2x standard (Industry Foundation Classes), enables extensive data export
and import among a large variety of applications and professions. GIStec contributes
top quality data management, integration of 3D data into the client’s
existing software structure, and technology for synchronizing 2D/3D data and
for visualization, thus supporting data output to external users. Complementing
Archicad’s intuitive visualization features, GIStec’s In3D-Viewing offers exceptionally
high-speed visualization and access to special supplementary data, making interactive
exploration of 3D models possible. “The cooperation of Graphisoft and
GIStec for comprehensive solutions will enable clients to create innovative
3D city models and to use them in tourism, marketing and economic development,”
said Dr. Uwe Jasnoch, CEO of GIStec.
“Now that Berlin and Hamburg have already used our technology for creating
their digital city models, we expect GIStec/Fraunhofer Institute to further
enhance the technology’s benefits to our customers, which in turn will convince
other cities and municipalities of the advantages of 3D city models,”
added Johannes Reischböck, CEO of Graphisoft Germany.
For more information about virtual city modeling please call: +49 2173/9029804
or send an e-mail to , or phone +49 06151/155-250,
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www.gistec-online.de.