July 13, 2005—ARCHIBUS, Inc. is now integrated with Google Earth and Maps, adding yet another option for integrating GIS (Geographic Information Systems) with its database of infrastructure and facilities management information, the company says. This is in addition to its pre-existing support of other leading GIS offerings such as ESRI ArcInfo/ArcIMS and Autodesk Map/MapGuide products.
Using ARCHIBUS/FM and GIS together extends benefits to many people in an organization, from casual users who want to drill down onto fixed maps to locate a particular asset on a building footprint, to those strategic users who need to perform real estate portfolio management or large-scale campus space planning.
Sophisticated activities, such as real estate portfolio analysis and underground cableway maintenance, are easier when ARCHIBUS/FM infrastructure and facilities management data is integrated with Googles newest offering, Earth, says ARCHIBUS. ARCHIBUS/FM can store point locations of assets in the database and reference them against a Google Earth map, helping to locate equipment—such as a buried cable or junction box—that does not appear on satellite images.
Similarly, large-scale campus planning must examine the inventory and adjacencies between buildings, which may not be evident from a map alone. In these cases, Google Earth can be used to query ARCHIBUS/FM data using GIS themes. For instance, with latitude and longitude information embedded within the ARCHIBUS/FM asset tables, users are able to pinpoint locations within the GIS application. Google Earth allows users to place asset markers over its results. ARCHIBUS/FM has also been integrated with GIS results to produce charts using XML and XSL technologies.
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