Available with any of the following products, except where noted:
Mappedin Enterprise Web
Mappedin Web SDK
Mappedin Mobile SDK
What is Blue dot?
Blue dot technology is just like GPS for outdoors, but for indoor spaces. It is directly in your web browser. You can find the Mappedin requirements for utilizing Blue dot here.
How does it work with Mappedin?
Blue dot automatically uses Apple Indoor Positioning and GPS data to provide the best experience inside and outside your venue.
Apple Indoor Positioning Setup
The Client applies to Apple's indoor positioning program
Go to https://register.apple.com/ to complete the process and register the venue.
Invite Mappedin org using our Org Name: "Mappedin" and the email address [email protected].
Invite Mappedin as an admin.
Upload & Authorization
Mappedin will upload the IMDF to Apple Business Register (ABR)
Client grants Mappedin with submission rights
Apple Map Review
Apple validates and approves IMDF
Venue Fingerprinting
On-site survey using the indoor survey app, time varies by venue size (the Client can do this or Mappedin can do this with an incremental cost)
Survey Activation
Apple to validate and approve fingerprint survey
Mappedin Quality Testing
Client Quality Testing
Apple Indoor Survey App
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Best Practices
For the best experience, here are a few tips to keep in mind:
Make sure you're using the latest iPhone and iOS version.
Take your iPhone out of its case and disconnect from the venue's Wi-Fi while you're doing the survey.
Try to stay in the middle of walkways and hallways. Use familiar spots like lease lines and entrances to help you find your position and mark accurate waypoints.
Spread out your waypoints evenly across the area.
If you're in a place with multiple floors, remember to fingerprint each floor separately.
Save My Location
Never lose your spot again – just tap the blue dot to drop a pin of your location. Easily find and navigate to your saved location, and update it at any time.
Perfect for visitors to mark their parking spot, meeting points, or favorite stores.
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Common Questions and Troubleshooting
Resubmit your IMDF to Apple
If you have made substantial changes to how people navigate your indoor space, you may want to resubmit an IMDF to Apple so they have the most uptodate data. If the changes are substantial, you will also want to resurvey and capture those changes.
Example: If you have previously defined a space as "non-public accessible" but you are now making this accessible to the public, you will need to survey this area.
You will not necessarily have to do the entire floor/level (although it is best practice and recommended by Apple) but any updated survey that is submitted is merged with the previous surveys that were captured.
Accuracy
If accuracy drops at any time, users will see a ring around the blue dot indicating the estimated level of accuracy. Apple IPS is between 4-8M accuracy.
Should their location be completely lost, the app will display a "finding location" message.