Indoor Maps - Floor Plans, Store Directory and Directions Inside a Building

The Indoor Maps kit turns a building into a map visitors can find their way around. With it you can:

• Floors: draw or import every floor of a building, with its rooms, corridors, doors, stairs, escalators and elevators.
• Store directory: list the stores, restaurants and services with their logos, opening hours, websites and phone numbers.
• Directions: give visitors step-by-step directions between any two places, across floors, with a step-free option.
• 3D: show the building in 3D, one floor at a time or every floor stacked.
• Checks: measure areas and occupancy, check exits and travel distances, plan cameras, and print an evacuation plan.

When you share the map, visitors get a search box, category buttons, the store list, directions and floor buttons. It all works in the browser on phones, tablets and computers. There is no app to install.

Who can use it

Building and changing an indoor map needs Pro Business. Anyone who opens a shared map can use its directory and directions.

Add the kit

1. Open Maps & Data and go to the Kits tab.
2. Indoor Maps is the first kit. Click Use Kit.

You can also click Use Kit on the Indoor Maps card, the first card under Map Kits on the Launch Pad.

To see a finished venue first, click Example on the card, or Load Example at the top of the kit. It opens a demo mall, Westfield Stratford City in London, with its floors, store directory and directions. It replaces the map you have open, so save your work first. Click Book Demo at the top of the kit to book a call with our team.

When a map already has a venue, a floor control appears on the map with a button for each floor. The pencil under the last floor opens the venue in the kit.

Start a venue

The Venue tab holds the venue and its floors.

• New venue: type a name and click Create Venue. It starts with a Ground floor.
• Import from OpenStreetMap: if the building is mapped indoors in OpenStreetMap, click Import OSM File and choose an Overpass JSON download of it. The rooms, doors, floors and named shops come in at once, and the shops become the directory. Imported data keeps its OpenStreetMap credit.
• Floors: click Add Floor Above or Add Floor Below. Click a floor to rename it or change its height, then Save Floor.

Draw and tag the shapes

Draw the building with the normal Scribble Maps drawing tools, then tell the kit what each shape is on the Shapes tab.

1. Pick the floor at the top of the kit. Shapes are tagged to the floor shown.
2. In Tag as, choose what the shape is: a room or corridor, a door, a walking path, a wall, an obstacle, a landmark, a "You are here" point or a kiosk.
3. For a room, choose its kind: a store, walkway, restroom, food court, elevator, stairs, escalator and so on.
4. Click Tag Room (the button follows what you chose) and pick the shape.

Draw rooms as polygons. Draw a door as a short line across the wall where people walk through, or click Add Door and then click the wall. A store with no door gets a guessed entrance on the side facing the walkway, shown dashed. Give it a real door to replace the guess.

Between floors: draw the elevator, stairs or escalator on each floor it serves and tag it as that kind of room. To join the floors, click Start Connector and pick the matching shape on each floor.

Fill in the directory

On the Directory tab, type a store name and click Add Store, then click Link Room and pick its room on the map. Fill in its categories, opening hours, website, logo, phone and description, then click Save Store.

Write hours like this: Mon-Fri 9:00-21:00; Sat 10-18; Sun closed. Visitors then see whether a store is open now.

Directions

On the Route tab, choose where to start and where to go, then click Show Route. The whole route shows first, with arrows where it goes up or down a floor. Click a step to see it on the map.

Step-free (elevators and ramps only) finds a route without stairs or escalators, for wheelchairs, strollers and luggage.

Route rules

On the Shapes tab, Route Rules let you control where routes go. Pick the button, then the shape. Pick it again to undo.

• Close Door: no route uses this door, for example during repairs.
• One-Way Door: people may only walk through in one direction. Pick it again to turn it around.
• Walk Through Room: routes may cut through this room, such as an open shop or a lobby.
• Line Blocks Routes: routes may not cross this line.
• Avoid If Possible: routes use this door or room only when nothing else gets there.

Style and layout

The Style tab sets how the venue looks and how visitors see it.

• Visitors see: 2D with a 3D button, always 2D, or always 3D.
• Floor spacing: how far apart the floors are in 3D.
• In 3D, keep the floors below when going up: each floor stands at its height over the floors below it, and the camera rises with it.
• Doors: glass, solid or open, with a door color.
• Floor colors and Store logos on their floors.
• Visitor layout: put the directory panel on the left or the right, floating over the map or full height beside it, and the floor buttons on either side.

Click Preview Share UI to see exactly what visitors will see.

3D

Click 3D View to see the building in 3D. One floor shows the floor you picked (with the floors below it, if that style is on). All floors stacks every floor. In directions, the 3D overview makes every floor see-through, so you see the whole route and each change of floor.

Analyze

The Analyze tab runs checks on the venue. They are planning aids, not a building code review.

• Check Egress: travel distance and common path to the exits, dead-end corridors and door widths, per floor. Click a finding to see it on the map.
• Measure Areas: gross, tenant, common and rentable area, load factor and occupant load for each floor and the building. Download CSV saves the table.
• Evacuation Plan: Open Plan opens a printable plan for the floor, and Download SVG saves it. Plan For A Shape makes one for a single room.
• Cameras & Sight: Choose Camera Marker sets a marker as a camera, Check Coverage shows what your cameras see, and Check Sight From A Point shows what is visible from any spot.

Share it

Save the map and share it like any Scribble Maps map, by link or as an embed on your website. The embed code from the Share dialog lets visitors drag and zoom the map. A link made by hand without those settings opens a map that does not move.

Ask Scribble

Scribble, the AI assistant in the editor, can use the kit for you. Try:

• "Where is Zara, and how do I get there from the food court?"
• "Find the nearest restroom from Adidas, step-free."
• "What is open now on Level 1?"
• "Close the north entrance door and make the escalator door one way."
• "Put the directory on the right, full height, with the floor buttons on the left."
• "Measure the areas of every floor."
• "Show me where to add a store." Scribble opens the right tab and highlights the button, so you can build your venue step by step.

Good to know

• Visitors pick where they start, from a store or a "You are here" point. The kit does not use indoor positioning, so there is no blue dot and no hardware to install.
• Floor plans can be imported from indoor OpenStreetMap data. Importing from images, PDF or CAD files is not available yet. Put an image of your plan on the map and draw over it.
• Labels and logos on a raised floor in 3D can move slightly while the map moves and settle when it stops.