Towards an Integration of Documentation, Information and Management Systems in a Common Framework

Three-dimensional modelling of urban environments is increasingly in a very fast way, and there is a diversifying demand of services and applications closed to virtual reality. The large diversity of formats, tools and products poses the need of developing software tools for sharing and exchanging information from context recognition. We propose an approach for system architecture composed by three subsystems to achieve this goal: Documentation, Information and Management System. CityGML provides a common framework for representing 3D urban object integrating different modules that involves extensions of traditional urban GIS. In this paper we introduces GIRAPIM, a software tool that implements these approach providing advance visualization, remote repository management and CityGML export features. We illustrate results with a case study applied to a small urban district of the city of Segovia (Spain), inside the framework of the PATRAC Project.