If you are weighing a Mappedin alternative, start with the job. Mappedin is known for indoor maps and wayfinding for places people visit. Spatial Map is built for the teams who run a building: it turns your floor plans into a 3D map and keeps it live with RFID, BLE, sensor and stock data. Here is an honest look at where each fits.
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Mappedin is an indoor mapping company from Canada. Its public materials describe tools for creating and managing indoor maps, indoor wayfinding, and SDKs for putting those maps into web and mobile apps and digital directories. It is commonly associated with venues such as shopping centres, airports, campuses and offices.
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 main goal is a visitor-facing experience — a branded wayfinding app, directory kiosks, maps embedded in a native mobile app through an SDK, or routes that span floors — a dedicated wayfinding platform such as Mappedin is likely the better fit. Spatial Map has no native mobile SDK, and its turn-by-turn routes stay on one floor today.
If the people looking at the map are staff — a warehouse, a store’s back office, a plant, a control room — and what they need is what is happening now: stock by bin, tags by room, temperatures by cold room, readers that went offline. You can also run both: a wayfinding product for visitors and Spatial Map for operations.
| Spatial Map | Worth confirming with Mappedin | |
|---|---|---|
| Main focus | Live operations maps and reports for staff | Its focus for your use case (visitor wayfinding, directories, apps) |
| Floor-plan import | PDF, DWG (R2004–R2018), PNG/JPG; you trace in the browser | Which formats you can import and who builds the map |
| Live data | Tables, REST sources, write API; data links to shapes | How live RFID, BLE, sensor and stock data reach the map |
| Wayfinding | Turn-by-turn on one floor (Navigate in the viewer) | Multi-floor routing, kiosks and accessibility options |
| Delivery | Web app and share links; no native SDK | Web and mobile SDK options |
| Pricing | Pro $60/month or $600/year, up to 4 facilities | Pricing for your number of buildings |
| Self-hosting | Open-source edition, MIT | Hosting options |
Mappedin 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 Mappedin 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.
