Indoor mapping in Riyadh for towers, malls, venues and logistics zones

The King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD), in the north of the city, is a dense cluster of office towers, and the Riyadh Metro, which opened in stages from late 2024, now serves it. For a facilities team in one of those towers the building is a stack of nearly identical floors, each with its own meeting rooms, stores, printers and equipment on loan.

Spatial Map stacks those floors in 3D and binds the asset register, equipment checkout, room bookings and work orders to them, as the Harborview demo does over three floors. With Ask AI (beta), a facilities coordinator can ask “how many laptops are checked out on floor 14?” and get an answer from the tables, with links that show the items on the map. Ask AI is read-only and masks personal values before the model sees them.

Riyadh’s largest malls spread shops, food courts and family entertainment over several levels, with car parks above or below. A visitor’s route nearly always changes floor. Spatial Map routes across floors through stairs, lifts and escalators, with Fastest, Step-free and Other route options, turn-by-turn steps, walking minutes and each floor change listed on the way. Step-free routing matters for families with pushchairs, older visitors and wheelchair users.

Routes work in the viewer and on read-only share links, so a QR code at a car-park lift lobby can open the map on the visitor’s phone, in Arabic or English, with no app. There is no live blue dot: the visitor picks a start point, and the map does not position their phone. The Retail Mart demo shows three floors joined by an escalator core and lifts.

Riyadh Season runs each winter across zones such as Boulevard World and Boulevard City, with an indoor arena that hosts boxing, concerts and shows, and Riyadh is preparing to host Expo 2030. Venues like these keep a permanent shell while the layout inside changes from one season, or one event, to the next.

Draw the shell once — walls, gates, stairs, lifts, services — and redraw only what changes. AI Map can redraft just one rectangle of the floor (“Part of the floor”) from an updated plan, and drafts that match shapes already on the map are skipped. Visitor counters can be shown as a heatmap, with heat that stops at walls and closed doors, so the busiest areas of a zone show up without reading a table. See Lakeside Convention Center for halls, session rooms and docks.

Next to King Khalid International Airport, the General Authority of Civil Aviation launched the Special Integrated Logistics Zone (SILZ) in 2022, linked to the airport by a bonded corridor, and the planned King Salman International Airport is to grow out of the existing airport. Distribution centres here serve the capital and much of the centre of the Kingdom, in line with the Vision 2030 logistics programmes.

For a new distribution centre, the rack tool draws each rack with its bays and levels, so bin locations can be coloured from a WMS export or a polled REST endpoint, as in the Crestline demo. The map built at handover stays the base when RFID readers and sensors arrive later.