By Florence
Tan with Ben Caradoc-Davies and Simon Cox
For a long time,
the use of spatial representations other than a conventional 2D cartographic
view has been a rather dark corner of the GIS world. However, some recently
adopted OGC standards promise to allow communities that need these, such as
facilities and engineering, urban planning and design, hydro-geology, and the
solid-earth geosciences, to integrate their world with the view normally
presented in the geospatial community. These include