Using QGIS to create 3D indoor maps

Using QGIS to create 3D indoor maps

Tim Jenks, SVP Software Development

• 3D mapping SDK for iOS / Android / JS / Windows / OS X / VR

• Largest virtual real-world we know of (20 million km^2)

• Developed in Dundee since 2007

• Open Source @ http://github.com/eegeo/

Japan for NTT Docomo

Melbourne AUS for Sensis / Telstra

Brazil for Samsung

North America for HIMEX Ltd

eeGeo Indoor Map Format

• Vector-based, open schema for Indoor Maps

• geojson-based. Simple creation + management using open tools like QGIS

• Format is made available under permissive CC-BY-4.0 license

• https://github.com/eegeo/eegeo-indoor-maps-api/

QGIS Digitizing Tools

• Georeference in Pseudo-mercator (EPSG:3857)

• Georeferencing is never an exact science

• QGIS Advanced Digitizing Tools to trace + Digitize CAD or Raster floor plans

Indoor Maps API

• RESTful API to create a 3D map from a Vector eeGeo Indoor Maps Format 2D map.

• Produces a 3D map for use in eeGeo maps

• http://github.com/eegeo/eegeo-indoor-maps-api

Seamless Indoor/Outdoor Wayfinding

• eeGeo Indoor Map Format supports specification of navigation graph

• Connected, attributed polyline graph

• Edited and managed in QGIS

Seamless Indoor/Outdoor Wayfinding

• Indoor & Outdoor RESTful routing API backed by OSRM available

• Outdoor routing using OSM and OSRM

• Example: http://jsfiddle.net/pm1nrbg4/

• http://github.com/eegeo/eegeo-routing-api/

Thanks! eeGeo Indoor Map Format available at: http://github.com/eegeo/ eeGeo 3D maps available at: http://eegeo.com Follow @eeGeo