Searching for a MapsIndoors alternative? MapsIndoors, from MapsPeople, is known for bringing maps and wayfinding indoors for workplaces, campuses and venues. Spatial Map comes at indoor maps from the operations side: your floor plans as a live 3D map, wired to RFID, BLE, sensor and stock data, with reports. This page sets out the differences fairly.
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No credit card. Runs in the browser. Pro is $60/month for up to 4 facilities. Book a demo
MapsPeople is a Danish company whose MapsIndoors platform extends familiar outdoor maps — its public materials mention Google Maps and Mapbox — to the inside of buildings, with indoor wayfinding, search and SDKs for web and mobile apps. It is commonly positioned for corporate workplaces, campuses and large venues.
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 you need wayfinding woven into an existing Google Maps or Mapbox experience, inside your own mobile app through an SDK, with routes across floors and buildings for employees or visitors, a dedicated indoor wayfinding platform like MapsIndoors is likely the better fit. Spatial Map has no native mobile SDK, and its routes stay on one floor today.
If the map is a working tool for operations — stock and equipment, sensors and readers, rooms by status — and you want to build it from your own floor plans, connect your own data in days and share reports without per-user setup. Spatial Map is itself built on Mapbox GL, so the map sits on a real basemap at true scale.
| Spatial Map | Worth confirming with MapsPeople | |
|---|---|---|
| Main focus | Live operations maps and reports for staff | Its focus for your use case (wayfinding, workplace, venue) |
| Floor-plan import | PDF, DWG (R2004–R2018), PNG/JPG; you trace in the browser | Who creates and maintains the indoor map data |
| Live data | Tables, REST sources, write API; data links to shapes | How your RFID, BLE, sensor or stock systems connect |
| Wayfinding | Turn-by-turn on one floor (Navigate in the viewer) | Multi-floor and multi-building routing |
| Delivery | Web app and share links; no native SDK | Web and mobile SDK options and base-map requirements |
| Pricing | Pro $60/month or $600/year, up to 4 facilities | Pricing for your buildings and users |
| Self-hosting | Open-source edition, MIT | Hosting options |
MapsIndoors (MapsPeople) 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 MapsIndoors (MapsPeople) 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.
