Brands's List: GPS and Mapping

• GIS is the de facto integrator of spatial information. Focus on it.
• 3D is the future. It is not just about data though, it is also about visualisation. Start using the phrase ‘elegant solution.’ Pay attention to the concept of ‘Digital Cities.’
• Sensing will increasing play a role that is supported through legislation. Data matters and numbers matter. Carbon credits become a currency, for example, and geotechnologies the stock exchange. I can’t say enough about understanding monitoring and it’s linkage to geospatial technologies. The current economic crisis will eventually lead to transparency and more of it.
• We can do scheduling well, but being able to understand ‘change over time’ is becoming more meaningful
• spatial data infrastructure (SDI).
• We’re about to enter a more holistically oriented and managed energy scenario. This goes back to integration - GIS.
• Think communities. Better and more efficient housing located near better and more efficienct tranportation systems.

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• Mapping BIM objects to CityGML classes is grunt work, but not impossible, Onuma observed. But the greater challenge, he thinks, is balancing the level of details in the urban planning model versus the users' needs.
• "You're probably not going to see uber models, but you'll see lots of domain models," for example, cityscapes, which show the exteriors of buildings and streets; interior models, which show the inside structure of buildings; and 3D visualization of utility and power networks.
• "In some jurisdictions, authorities have passed laws to make electronic signatures legal," Zeiss explained. "In my view, we have to first make electronic signatures legal, then the cities have to start encouraging people to submit their plans and proposals electronically."

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