A collaboration to enhance the usage of BIM standards in civil infrastructure and to link it to location-based technologies has taken concrete shape with the signing of the MoU between World Geospatial Industry council [WGIC] and buildingSMART International.
In a landmark development, geospatial industry leaders from across the world came together to announce the formation of the World Geospatial Industry Council (WGIC). The announcement was made at the 8th session of the UN-GGIM (United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management).
During the Inter-Geo event in Frankfurt Germany, two major organizations working in geospatial space – World Geospatial Industry Council [WGIC] and Open Geospatial Consortium [OGC] came together to create greater awareness, understanding and adoption of geospatial technologies across industries and the government sector.