Under the Hood: 4 Ways to Enrich Civil Projects by Connecting BIM and GIS

Every month, an Autodesk expert gets technical and gives their personal take on workflows that can help you. In this issue of Under the Hood, John Sayre shares how the Autodesk Connector for ArcGIS enables the use of geospatial data in your civil projects.    When I attended the recent Esri User Conference in San Diego, I mixed and mingled with GIS professionals. They explained how they use GIS to make rich, detailed maps, which help city planners make decisions that affect their communities, allow utilities to keep the lights and communications on for all of us, help us all better visualize the impacts of the changing environment on our daily lives, and many, many other applications. This gave me the opportunity to discuss with them why we civil engineers need their data, how we use it in our infrastructure design projects, and how more efficient workflows between our teams could benefit the broader community.  Bridging GIS and civil project teams …

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