By: Mederic Morel
Mederic Morel is CEO and co-founder at Mapwize, the indoor mapping platform for smart buildings.
Mapwize is using Mapbox to bring navigation indoors. At Mapwize, we’ve spent years working on the digitization of building floor plans and knew it only made sense to make this a part of a continuous outdoor-to-indoor navigation experience through a seamless integration of both types of maps.
With the Mapwize Indoor Maps SDKs, built on Mapbox, we’re able to combine OpenStreetMap data with a unique set of features to customize maps. We chose to work with Mapbox because of the quality of their open SDKs, documentation and fast developer support response rate. To allow our customers to get the most out of Mapbox, we’ve designed our Indoor Maps SDKs as standard plug-ins. That way, developers can combine features of both our platforms easily.
We’re extending Mapbox’s outdoor capabilities by providing a unique set of indoor features including an Autocad file import component, a content management system (CMS), an indoor direction engine, APIs and an access management system. Our SDKs can be used to build mobile apps, web apps, and kiosk applications. We also provide a way to use any indoor positioning system to get user positions based on Wi-Fi, beacons, or li-fi. To do so, we’ve created an open source framework (www.indoorlocation.io) that allows developers to retrieve user positions easily with our ready-to-use connectors.
For developers wanting to use our tools, all you have to do is add the Mapwize plug-in to your projects to manage building floor plans. The maps are made available as soon as the zoom level enables the display. Once the map is visible, you can use a search engine to locate points-of-interest and a direction engine to compute the shortest way toward a destination.
If you’re already building with Mapbox, Mapwize is the perfect indoor companion. We provide free access to the platform as well as a ready-to-use open source mobile app for iOS and Android available on GitHub (https://github.com/mapwize).
Want to know more about adding Mapbox to your existing project? Drop us a line or take a look at our help page to get started
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