If you’re going to make a big announcement, why not make it at a big event. That’s just what Autodesk and ESRI did this week at Autodesk University. This year’s event was held at The Venetian in Las Vegas and attended by more than 10,000 professionals from the architecture, design, manufacturing and media industries for three days of learning, inspiration and in-depth skills development. Dubbed by Autodesk as “The conference for those who design and make the world around us,” it was the perfect place to make an announcement that impacts nearly everyone in the architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) industries.
Autodesk and ESRI announced they have started a new relationship to build a bridge between BIM and GIS mapping technologies. The two industry giants plan to “enable a broad range of industries to gain better context by visualizing data of the man-made world, the environment, citizens and the networks that weave it all together,” according to their press release.
This vision, announced by Andrew Anagnost and Jack Dangermond at Autodesk University, is great news to those in the AEC industry using BIM or GIS, or even better yet, a mixture of the two. The improved interoperability of this partnership will help ensure the two technologies work more seamlessly together. This will allow users to optimize their ability to plan, design, build and operate infrastructure assets, which will dramatically decrease workflows as well as save time…