Esri recently released the ArcGIS AEC Collection, which was designed to provide better collaboration with the AEC industry. Specifically, this collection works with Autodesk InfraWorks®, Revit® and Civil 3D® and provides users the ability to more simply create, manage, visualize and share your project data.
Geographic Information System is defined as the framework for gathering, managing and analyzing data. GIS integrates many types of data, analyzing spatial location and organization layers of info into maps. And until the 1960s, maps were produced and used for either navigation or resource inventory.
GIS’s early roots can be traced back to a movement that involved attempts to improve the land use planning by considering multiple environmental factors. This tedious and time-consuming method involved overlaying maps on light tables and tracing suitable or unsuitable areas onto a new map.
In 1963, Roger Tomlinson worked to create and develop the Canada Geographic…