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The Interoperable Building Model
of the European Union
Gerhard Gröger and Lutz Plümer
Abstract The INSPIRE initiative of the European Union (EU) aims at developing
a huge spatial data infrastructure (SDI) for authoritative spatial data in Europe. The
member states are obligated to provide a large amount of their spatial data in this
SDI. The building model is an important aspect among the 34 themes which are
covered by INSPIRE. To cope with the heterogeneity of use cases and of data
availability in the EU, the model consists of two normative profiles: a 2D and 3D
profile. In addition, two non-normative extended profiles are provided. The chapter
describes the use cases for buildings and the normative part of the building model
in detail, as well as the relation to the standard CityGML for 3D city models,
which has influenced the INSPIRE building model significantly. Although the
regional scope of INSPIRE is the EU, it presumably will function as a role model
also for other regions in the world.
1 Introduction
Currently, a new huge, widespread and multi-faceted spatial data infrastructure
(SDI) is developed and build-up in the European Union. This initiative is called
INSPIRE (
In
frastructure for
Sp
atial
I
nfo
r
mation in the
E
uropean Community)
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