Indoor mapping in Bahrain for event venues, the terminal and offices

Exhibition World Bahrain in Sakhir is the kingdom’s largest exhibition and convention venue, and like every exhibition centre it is a different building each week: the halls, docks and registration stay put, while the booth layout, the session rooms and the visitor flow change with every show. A static PDF map is out of date before the doors open.

In Spatial Map the permanent building is drawn once — halls, docks, registration, prayer rooms, restrooms, lifts — and each event adds its own booth blocks and room bookings on top. Badge scans, hall occupancy and crate reads from the dock to the booth bind to the current layout, as in the Lakeside demo. For how floor plans become a 3D map in general, see indoor mapping.

Bahrain International Circuit is best known for its Formula 1 weekend, but its grandstands, VIP buildings and paddock host concerts, track days and other events through the year. Operationally it behaves like a stadium spread over a larger site: gates, grandstands, VIP suites, food outlets and crews that need to be in the right place at the right time.

Draw the buildings floor by floor and the outdoor areas — gates, grandstands, car parks — as zones on the site plan. Turnstile scans, crowd counters and food-and-beverage sales then colour those zones live, the way the Crown Park Stadium demo does for concourses and stands.

Bahrain International Airport moved into a new passenger terminal in 2021, with check-in, security, gates and reclaim spread over several levels. For the teams who run it, the building is drawn once and the live layers sit on top: queue throughput at security, crowding by zone, loan wheelchairs and staff by area. The Silverbay Terminal 2 demo shows a terminal built exactly that way, with 21 reports. Spatial Map is an independent product and not part of the airport’s own systems.

Malls in Seef and across Manama are multi-level buildings with car-park lifts, prayer rooms and family facilities that visitors look for first. The operations team wants something else: tenant units coloured by status, service corridors and loading bays. Both views live in one facility; the visitor share link shows only the public layers.

Manama is one of the Gulf’s long-established financial centres, and its office towers run on meeting rooms, shared equipment and visitors who need to reach the right floor. The Harborview demo shows three office floors with departments, meeting rooms, tagged assets and equipment check-in and check-out — the base a facilities team builds on.

Every September, university campuses fill with students who cannot find the lecture hall. A share link printed as a QR code at each entrance, with Navigate turned on, gives turn-by-turn walking routes around walls and through doors. The share page follows the phone’s language, so an Arabic phone gets a right-to-left interface, and room names are your own text — “Lecture Hall 2 · قاعة المحاضرات 2” works as written.

Routes are calculated on one floor at a time; lifts, stairs and escalators carry wayfinding icons and visitors switch levels with the floor switcher. The Westbrook University demo shows labs, classrooms and instruments on two floors.