Indoor Mapping

This page is intended to collect all ideas concerning indoor mapping activities.

It is useful for tagging, to refer to the Simple Indoor Tagging schema.

Use cases

Indoor maps or information can be used for various applications, e.g.

• Indoor Navigation/Routing
• 3D Visualization
• 2D Maps
• Public Participation
• Emergency response
• Interested Amenities Display (e.g. Toilets, Fire Extinguisher, First Aid Box)

for different venues, e.g.

• Airports
• Hospitals
• Hotels
• Universities
• Schools
• Museums
• Train and subway stations
• Shopping Malls
• Smart buildings
• multi storey parking decks
• other public buildings

The indoor/use cases page contains a list of venue use case examples, with sample maps from the venues.

Apps

(recently updated first)

Projects

Currently these users are working on indoor-related topics:

• AddICT Compound facility (CompoundFacility)
• Saerdnaer Indoor Proposal (Proposed features/indoor), Rendering (modified Kothic JS), Routing (modified OSRM, JavaScript UI with Leaflet)
• Gomar1985 Indoor Proposal (IndoorOSM), Rendering of multi-level building maps in 2D (http://indoorosm.uni-hd.de/) and 3D, Indoor Routing/Navigation (http://indoorosm.uni-hd.de/)
• andreas.balzer Extension and aggregation of indoor proposals, see andreas.balzer, Rendering (own render engine in C#, yet to be published), Routing (modified OsmSharp)
• Xianlin NUS Indoor Map, Singapore
• AeroSuch Co-founder of indoor mapping startup BuildingLayer (discontinued 2014-11). Maintains Indoor Navigation Market spreadsheet (last update 2013-09).
• Sutter Working on an indoor map editor Termite This effort has been discontinued.
• Mdiener (Michael Diener) Founder of indoor mapping and indoor routing based on open source software indrz find us on GITHUB at https://github.com/indrz/indrz
• Overflorian Indoor mapping of train stations over the Paris area Open Data SNCF
• TagaSanPedroAko Mostly doing indoor mapping of malls around south Metro Manila, especially Muntinlupa.
• PanierAvide Creator of OpenLevelUp and iD-indoor, also contributing to indoor in France.
• rolandmwagner Roland Wagner, initiator of OpenStationMap, also mapped NYC Grand Central Station, Chicago Union, Sydney Central, Tokyo Ueno, Prague Central, Amsterdam Central, Portland / OR Union, Berlin Hauptbahnhof, London,...
• Exatomos Started indoor mapping of ULB "Plaine" university campus in Brussels.
• Clement.igonet Creator of OpenIndoor S.A.S., contributing to 3D web indoor solution.

Communication

There is now a new subforum for Indoor-Mapping:

• https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewforum.php?id=67 .

Let's try to increase the communication in this project. --Andi 12:03, 3 October 2012 (BST)

Talks

• State of the Map 2016
  • http://2016.stateofthemap.org/2016/osm-goes-indoors/
  • http://2016.stateofthemap.org/2016/osm-goes-indoors-2/
  • http://2016.stateofthemap.org/2016/station-indoor-routing-and-mapping-in-practice-with-openstationmap/
• FOSSGIS 2012: http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2012/programm/events/468.de.html
  • Mitschnitt als mp4 webm

Tagging

For the current consensus see Simple Indoor Tagging. The tags below may be outdated or no longer used.

Rendering

Available renderers:

• An Overpass API based renderer : OpenLevelUp
• OpenIndoor renderer (MapLibre based): OpenIndoor

Geolocalization

• The altitude value of GPS devices could be used to identify in which level of a parking multi storey a car is located.

This won't be possible until someone invents a new GPS system that is a lot better at vertical accuracy. --Cartinus (talk) 14:27, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Routing

• To go from point A to point B, need to consider:
  • levels
  • stairs
  • escalators (conveying)
  • elevators (lifts)

Devices / Technologies

• High sensitivity GPS device
• Step counter
• Compass
• Acceleration sensor
• Counting the number of wheel turns in cars / Tachometer
• Counting the number of floor tiles
• RFID
• WLAN
• Bluetooth
• Camera
• Audio footprint for rooms
• Laser rangefinder (e.g. Hector SLAM )

Projects

Indoor actives related to OSM: (please add new ones at the top)

• indoor= (indoorequal.org) - A map that render indoor data with a level selector and an heatmap to locate indoor mapped area.
• indrz.com https://github.com/indrz/indrz Open Source backend (Django python web framework) to manage indoor data for buildings, rooms spaces
• OpenLevelUp (openlevelup.net) - A web viewer display indoor data level by level, written in JavaScript, supports both indoor=* and buildingpart=* tag schemes. Git repository.
• OsmInEdit (osminedit.pavie.info) - A simple web indoor editor, focused on making things easier (floor plan management, dedicated editing modes).
• OpenIndoor (app.openindoor.io) - A 3D web viewer display indoor data level by level, based on mapbox, supports both indoor=* and buildingpart=* tag schemes. Git repositories.
• iD-indoor (projets.pavie.info/id-indoor/ - unmaintained) - A web indoor editor based on iD, with indoor dedicated features (level filtering, specific map and presets).
• BE-free@campus: Barriers and Exclusion-free at campus - A personal assisted navigation to disabled people within the Polytechnic of Bari facilities of the university campus.
• http://www.openstationmap.org for (Railway) Stations including the indoors with the Simple Indoor Tagging, but also extensions, e.g. for doors and for stairwells (steps). Example stations are Berlin Hauptbahnhof, Sydney Central or Tokyo Ueno JR Station.
• http://indoorosm.uni-hd.de indoorOSM project from OSM data - a project of the University of Heidelberg
• FootPath, infrastructureless indoor navigation on OSM data for smart phones (Android) at COMSYS, RWTH Aachen University video
• Ways4All
• OSMTools Indoor: http://osmtools.org/indoor/#lat=51.09447&lon=17.01945&z=18
  • Fork of the previous one : https://github.com/clement-lagrange/osmtools-indoor ; demo here : http://clement-lagrange.github.io/osmtools-indoor/ ; fully functional indoor building browser, js only.

Former, inactive and on hold projects:

• Richard Atterer's Leadme project A spare time project by Richard Atterer for home made indoor mapping.
• Termite - an editor specialized for indoor maps. This has been discontinued.
• http://andreas-hubel.de/ba/demo/ levelable indoor maps from OSM data implemented with Kothic JS
  • demo currently offline. See http://andreas-hubel.de/ba/ for implementation details and screenshots. There is also a virtual server image available which contains all software needed to run the demo. --Saerdnaer 19:35, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
  • It's now online again. See this screencast for more information (german): http://youtu.be/OSxU99sp0Gc --Andi 11:40, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
• OpenCaveMap project under construction, need volunteers. It's caving mapping Opencavemap.org and all other underground places

Activities outside OSM where moved to Indoor/Projects

Challenges

There is a discussion of challenges of adding indoor maps to OSM at Challenges for Indoor Maps.

Examples

List of places with indoor coverage. Consult indoor= or openindoor to see an heatmap of all mapped indoor area. The following list may be obsolete.