Google yesterday unveiled the Google Maps Floor Plan Marker App, an Android application that allows venue owners to wardrive RF frequencies (GPS, Wi-Fi, Cellular) inside their venues to improve Google’s indoor positioning database, including floor determination for multi level venues.
The application asks the indoor venue owner (or any volunteer having previously uploaded a blue print) to move around his venue with the app. The application uses map matching techniques to calibrate the RF signals against the existing map uploaded by the venue owner to Google servers.
This new Android App adds to the crowdsourcing of floor plans that Google launched last November (read here). So far these indoor location's crowdsourcing efforts have been only deployed in the United States.
The application asks the indoor venue owner (or any volunteer having previously uploaded a blue print) to move around his venue with the app. The application uses map matching techniques to calibrate the RF signals against the existing map uploaded by the venue owner to Google servers.
This new Android App adds to the crowdsourcing of floor plans that Google launched last November (read here). So far these indoor location's crowdsourcing efforts have been only deployed in the United States.
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