User:Heddam/Indoor Mapping

This is the user sandbox of Heddam. A user sandbox is a subpage of the user's user page. It serves as a testing spot and page development space for the user and is not an OpenStreetMap article.

Software/projects

for indoor activities outside OpenStreetMap, see Indoor/Projects

Screenshot	Indoor mapping tool	Description	Developer	Licence	Release date	Latest version	Latest version date	Website
	OsmInEdit	A simple web indoor editor, focused on making things easier (floor plan management, dedicated editing modes)	Adrien Pavie	ISC	2019-09-19	v1.0.0		website source
	OpenLevelUp	A web viewer display indoor data level by level, written in JavaScript, supports both indoor=* and buildingpart=* tag schemes.	Adrien Pavie	AGPL 3	2015-02-18	v3.0 alpha		website source code
	indoor=	a map that display indoor data from OpenStreetMap	François de Metz	BSD	2020-07-29	0.1.1		website
	OpenStationMap	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.	Roland Wagner, Roland Olbricht	?	?	?		website
		A personal assisted navigation to disabled people within the Polytechnic of Bari facilities of the university campus.	Eugenio Di Sciascio, Emilia Conte, Michele Ruta, Saverio Ieva	?	?	?		website map
	Mapbox GL Indoor Plugin	A mapboxgl-js plugin to enable multi-floors maps		MIT	2020-05-08 (pre-release)	0.0.4-rc1	2020-05-27 (pre-release)	source code
	Open Indoor		Clement.igonet	MIT	2020-07-04			website demo
	indrz	Open Source backend (Django python web framework) to manage indoor data for buildings, rooms spaces			2016-01-12 (v. 1.0)		2018-06-15 (latest change in master branch)	source code website
	FootPath	infrastructureless indoor navigation on OSM data for smart Android)	Aachen University, COMSYS, RWTH	GPL-3.0	2010-2011 [licence]		2011-07-23 (last change on github)	YouTube
	Ways4All	Barrier-free travel for everyone - support for people with special needs in public transport
	OSMTools Indoor				2012 [licence]			website [ dead link ]
	OpenStreetMap Indoor Mapping browser	Fork of OSMTools Indoor, fully functional indoor building browser, js only.			2012-2014 [licence]			source code demo
	ID-indoor	A web indoor editor based on iD, with indoor dedicated features (level filtering, specific map and presets).	Adrien Pavie	ISC	?	?		website
	Leadme	a software & hardware project to create indoor maps without the availability of GPS signals, in the style of OpenStreetMap	Richard Atterer					website
	Termite	an editor specialized for indoor maps. This has been .
	Indoor Webapp	Levelable indoor maps from OSM data implemented with Kothic JS	SaerdnaerAndi					website [ dead link ] YouTube
	OpenCaveMap	It's caving mapping and all other underground places						website [ dead link ]
	Indoor Navigation Market spreadsheet	A list of resources for indoor mapping and positioning	Nick Such				2013-09	Google Sheets
	BuildingLayer	indoor mapping startup	Nick Such		2011		2014-11	website

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
• 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.

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)

Make your indoor navigation app content discoverable

There is an API proposal you can implement on your backend to ensure other apps can link to your indoor navigation app.

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.

Tags in use

Please see Tagging above for more detailed information

• level=n - indicates floor level; interpretation of the values varies (see key page)
  • <n> is usually an integer number, sometimes also one or two characters, sometimes combined (e.g. A,B,C,1,2,3).
  • in any case, <n> should be ascending (towards the sky).
  • in some cultures base level is indicated by level 0, in other cultures ground floor is level 1 (or A).
  • there are also usages reported where fraction numbers are used (e.g. level=2.5) indicating a "mezzanine" or "intermediate level" (e.g. intermediate stairway platforms).
• room=yes - see key wiki page for additional values to describe the type more detailed. Room number ref=* and room name name=* are tagged as appropriate.
• entrance=yes - building entrance
• door=yes/hinged/sliding/no - interior doorways
• capacity=* - the occupant capacity of a room, storey, building or part of a building defined as the maximum number of persons it is designed to hold
• highway=elevator - elevators
• highway=steps - stairways
  • conveying=yes/forward/backward/reversible - escalators
• indoormark=beacon - Bluetooth, NFC, or QR beacon for indoor positioning.

Proposed Tags

• indoor=yes - Indicates any osm object being inside a room, a building (or both) or a shelter.
  • mandatory has to be discussed, I would prefer an outdoor=yes for the difficult cases. --Saerdnaer 16:48, 28 March 2011 (BST)
• highway=corridor - Indoor ways, under some previous indoor tagging schemes, and as of 2019 a de facto standard. Another de facto standard for mapping interior routes is highway=footway+indoor=yes.

Discontinued

• 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)
• IndoorOSM from University of Heidelberg (same as gomar above)

here are also some abandoned and inactive proposals (oldest last):

• IndoorOSM
• Proposed_features/indoor
• Termite#Indoor_Model
• CompoundFacility
• Relations/Proposed/Level_Map
• Relations/Proposed/Level

Taging proposals more concerned with the 3D shape of the building

• Simple 3D Buildings

Rendering

An Overpass API based renderer is available : OpenLevelUp

Routing

• 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)

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 [1])

Challenges

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