The indoor map solution for buildings and facilities

An indoor map solution turns the inside of a building into a digital map people and systems can use: each floor’s rooms, corridors, doors, stairs, lifts and fixed equipment, drawn to scale and placed at real-world coordinates. Unlike a floor-plan PDF, an indoor map knows what every shape is — so you can search it, route through it, colour it by data and show it floor by floor in 3D.

The software is the map maker and the map viewer in one: a way to create indoor maps from the plans you have, keep them up to date, connect them to the systems that know where things are, and share them. Our guide to indoor mapping explains the concepts; the rest of this page is how Spatial Map does it.

Four steps take a building from paper to a live indoor map: import the floor plan of each floor at real-world scale, draw rooms, walls, doors, racks, stairs and lifts over it, connect your data through tables and REST sources, and share read-only views, reports and directions. Everything happens in the browser — there is nothing to install for editors or viewers.

Upload the plan and Spatial Map places it on the map as the base of a floor. For PDF plans you pick the sheet and its drawing scale, such as 1:100; the sheet size is read from the page, so the plan lands at true size. DWG files from AutoCAD R2004 to R2018 are rendered as a picture at real-world units. PNG and JPG scans work too — set the width and height and align them. Read more in CAD and PDF import.

The plan is a reference layer, not the model. You trace on top of it, which means a messy or half-updated drawing never ends up baked into your digital twin — and an old scan is as good a starting point as a clean CAD file.

The editor has a tool for each thing a building contains: rooms and areas, walls (including magic walls, generated around the rooms you have drawn), doors, racks with locations and bins, aisles and routes, stairs, lifts and escalators, text labels, circles, image planes, assets and 3D models. Every floor stacks into a multi-floor 3D model you can orbit and explore floor by floor, with stairs, lifts and escalators connecting the levels.

Names matter: the room you call “Cold Room 2” or the rack you call “A-12” is the key your live data uses to find it. The step-by-step example goes from a PDF to a finished facility.

A floor plan becomes a digital twin when it shows what is happening now. Data arrives in tables three ways — REST sources pulled on a schedule, file uploads (CSV, Excel, JSON, GeoJSON) and a per-table write API — and data links bind table rows to the map as live markers, value badges, coloured rooms, heatmaps, camera cones or pulsing zones. Each technology has its own page:

Once the data is linked, the map is the place people work from. Every change to a table row is kept, so the History player can replay movement. Each facility comes with eight built-in reports, and the report builder adds your own, including a live full-map layout for a control-room screen; exports go to PDF, Excel, CSV or JSON.

Everything runs in the browser, so there is nothing to install on a control-room PC, a laptop or a contractor’s machine. The interface is available in English, Spanish, French, German, Arabic with full right-to-left layout, and Chinese. If you would rather not draw the building yourself, our services team maps it for you from your plans — a fixed-price proposal within three business days, working remotely in six languages.

You do not have to imagine any of this. Thirteen demo facilities — a retail store, a fulfillment center, a pharma cold store, a cross-dock, an assembly plant, an airport terminal, a stadium, a museum and more — run with live sensors, RFID, BLE and gateways in the showcase.

Spatial Map runs as a managed cloud service at app.spatialmap.io: a 7-day free trial, then Pro at $60 a month or $600 a year for up to 4 facilities. If your data has to stay on your own network, or you want to change the code, the same app is available as open-source indoor mapping software under the MIT licence, self-hosted with Docker.

Comparing options? The buyer’s guide to indoor mapping software sorts the market into wayfinding platforms, indoor positioning, indoor GIS and operational digital twins, and the comparison pages set Spatial Map next to the best-known alternatives.