Need an ArcGIS Indoors alternative? ArcGIS Indoors is Esri’s indoor GIS, and it shines for organisations that already run ArcGIS. If you don’t have a GIS team — or you need a live operations map more than a space-management system — Spatial Map turns your floor plans into a 3D indoor map in the browser and connects it to live data in days.
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No credit card. Runs in the browser. Pro is $60/month for up to 4 facilities. Book a demo
ArcGIS Indoors is Esri’s indoor mapping offering within the ArcGIS system. Its public materials describe indoor maps built on an indoor data model and managed with ArcGIS tools, apps for finding people, places and assets, and capabilities such as space planning and workspace reservation. It fits organisations that already manage their facilities and campuses in ArcGIS.
Spatial Map is browser-based indoor mapping software for operations teams. You import a PDF or DWG floor plan, trace rooms, walls, doors, racks, stairs and lifts into a multi-floor 3D map, then bind every shape to live data — RFID reads, BLE tag positions, sensor readings, stock from a WMS — through tables, REST sources and a per-table write API. Reports, read-only share links and single-floor turn-by-turn wayfinding come from the same map. Pro is $60 a month or $600 a year for up to 4 facilities after a 7-day free trial, and an open-source edition (MIT) runs on your own servers.
If your organisation runs ArcGIS already, your indoor data has to live in the same GIS as your outdoor assets, or you need space planning, workspace reservation and portfolio-wide facility records, ArcGIS Indoors is likely the better fit. Spatial Map is not a GIS and does not replace one.
If the goal is an operational view of one building or a handful of sites — a warehouse, a plant, a store, a venue — built quickly from the plans you have, connected to the systems you run, and shared with people who will never open a GIS. Shapes still have real-world coordinates, because floor plans are georeferenced on a Mapbox basemap.
| Spatial Map | Worth confirming with Esri | |
|---|---|---|
| Main focus | Live operations maps and reports for staff | Its focus for your use case (indoor GIS, space planning, wayfinding) |
| Skills needed | Browser drawing tools; no GIS required | GIS skills and ArcGIS products you need |
| Floor-plan import | PDF, DWG (R2004–R2018), PNG/JPG; georeferenced at true scale | How CAD and BIM data become indoor GIS data |
| Live data | Tables, REST sources, write API; data links to shapes | How live IoT and RFID data connect |
| Sharing | Read-only links, no account needed | Viewer licensing |
| Pricing | Pro $60/month or $600/year, up to 4 facilities | Pricing and licensing for your organisation |
| Self-hosting | Open-source edition, MIT | ArcGIS Enterprise options |
ArcGIS Indoors (Esri) and the other product names on this page are trademarks of their respective owners, used here only to identify their products. Spatial Map is not affiliated with or endorsed by them. The description of ArcGIS Indoors (Esri) is based on its publicly available product information as of October 2026 and is deliberately general — features and terms change, so check the vendor’s own site before you decide. Spot something out of date? Tell us at [email protected] and we will correct it.
Wayfinding for visitors, live operations for staff, or both? The answer decides which tool fits.
Start a 7-day trial (no card) and import the PDF or DWG of one floor you know well.
Push a few rows from your RFID, BLE, sensor or WMS system to a table and link them to shapes.
Send a read-only link to the people who would use it daily and score both tools on the same building.
Each use case is running on a demo facility you can open in the browser.
Rack locations coloured by stock status from the WMS, with staging lanes and docks.
RFID and BLE-tagged equipment located room by room across floors.
Gates, counts, staff and environment sensors on a multi-floor venue map.
Fictional names, real floor plans, live sensors, RFID, BLE tags and gateways — open any of them in the browser.
