Girapim. a 3d Information System for Surveying Cultural Heritage Environments

Several important goals for Urban GIS involve to Documentation, Information and Management Systems (DiMAS). Nowadays, there are good solutions for each one of them, but their integration poses still some non-trivial challenges. Between others, these challenges involve to a) interoperability between different tools, b) customized provision of services, and c) interactive dialogue with changing environments for different kinds of agents. In this work we describe our work in progress for the three mentioned issues which is being applied to Cultural Heritage Urban environments. The GIRAPIM solution developed in this work uses CityGML as a general semantic framework for integrating the above cited three systems, and displays some applications for interventions in public buildings and small urban districts with interest from the Cultural Heritage viewpoint. Some specific contributions of our approach concern to range-based modeling, the development of a specific Ontology common to DiMAS and the provision of web services along the life-cycle of intervention on the building or a small urban environment. The methodology is being applied for surveying interventions in isolated historic building and small urban district in several Spanish urban cities with interest from the Cultural Heritage viewpoint.