Indoor Mapping

Indoor GIS for Emergency Response -- When Location Matters Most

Indoor GIS for Emergency Response -- When Location Matters Most

The role of address points as a critical aspect of enhancing response efforts and ensuring public safety exemplifies the evolving landscape of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and emergency management. Address points, the geographical markers representing specific locations or addresses within a GIS database, serve as a fundamental element for emergency response mapping. These data points…

Beginning a Campus GIS Program from the Ground Up

Beginning a Campus GIS Program from the Ground Up

Many facility managers know that they need a GIS for their campus but may not know where to begin.  This post will look at some recommended steps for implementing a successful campus GIS using the ArcGIS platform when you have little or nothing to start with.  If you’re starting from scratch to build your campus GIS, you may have some data to begin with. Or you might just looking to provide management with some budget numbers.  If either of these are true, you’ve come to the right place.

Using GIS for Campus Facilities: Organizing Digital Floorplans and As-Built Drawings

Using GIS for Campus Facilities: Organizing Digital Floorplans and As-Built Drawings

When setting out to use GIS for Campus or Facility management, it is important to understand what type of data tracking challenges are currently present in your organization. This gets increasingly important to determine as organizations grow larger, start to create more data, and compile more historic records. These challenges typically revolve around the subject of modern-day data storage, but include the following:

Digitizing Floor Plans for Indoor Data Space Management

Digitizing Floor Plans for Indoor Data Space Management

pace is expensive. Due to this simple truth, it is important to ensure the accurate digitizing of features and space inside your facilities. As more features get digitized within a designated facility, the inaccuracies will compound when it comes time to calculate the total ‘Gross Area’ and ‘Net Area’ of the building. These two area measurements are used when trying to optimize time, work and money spent on the building. At the very least, space costs about $10 for every square foot.

Keeping Up With ArcGIS Indoors

Keeping Up With ArcGIS Indoors

The easiest description of Indoor GIS is that it is used in the same way as regular GIS, just incorporating Indoor capabilities like floor levels and unit-floor-building relations. The Package of ArcGIS Indoors is actually a collection of three applications, including a mobile app and two web-apps, being the Indoor Viewer and the Indoor Space Planner.

Creating, Testing, and Publishing Route Networks for ArcGIS Indoors

Creating, Testing, and Publishing Route Networks for ArcGIS Indoors

When compared to traditional campus and facility management through CAD layers and multiple spreadsheets, ArcGIS Indoors offers a much more streamlined approach. Managing indoor assets through ArcGIS Indoors allows for improved facility maintenance, building operations, and indoor analysis across an entire campus thanks to ESRI’s ArcGIS Indoors Information Model (AIIM).

From 10,000 feet to 1 inch: Bringing GIS indoors

From 10,000 feet to 1 inch: Bringing GIS indoors

ArcGIS Indoors is a map-based software application that enables property owners to manage all of their facilities across an entire campus in one, centralized, location. With Esri’s latest release of ArcGIS Indoors, their flagship mapping platform now offers a new solution to deliver improved strategic planning, facility operations, and workplace productivity not to mention a host of other benefits. Property managers and facility operations personnel looking for an interactive map-based solution to manage their campus and building data can take advantage of this technology to track and maintain information such as status, condition, inspection history, and asset information for all of their facilities.