Map editor for indoor navigation

Question

I would like to create indoor navigation app. But have some trouble with a floor plan. And I need a good map(floor) editor maybe like ArcGis,JOSM. Will be great if this editor can create database by map (door, windows, corridors,...). I will integrate this map in iOS app. Thanks!

Answer 1

I found solution. I had this floor plan in jpg.

My steps:
1)Convert your image through GDAL to Gtiff.
2)Create project in TileMill without globe.
3)Press on the button "Add new layer".
4)Choose destination to your gtiff file and type in SRS field "900913".
5)Save.
6)In the CSS set on the image layer raster-scaling:bilinear;
7)Zoom your map while you will see the map.
8)Export your project to MBTile.
9)Use MapBox SDK to integrate your MBTile.

For GDAL:
gdal_translate \
-of GTiff \
~/Downloads/Plateosaurus_big.jpg \
~/Downloads/Plateosaurus_big.tif

Answer 2

You are free to choose any vector GIS you like to use to create indoor floor plans. Thus, you need to develop an speficiation for your model, so that you can create rules for routers etc. Next you need to think about how to store them (shapefiles, PostGIS, ...) and how you want to create the final products (rendered maps, routing graphs, ...).

I'm not sure how you want to create/collect your floorplans (experts vs. VGI) but JOSM sounds like a good starting point, esp. as the OSM community has already some experience with indoor mapping: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Indoor

Hint 1: There seems to be currently no final solution to indoor geolocation with adequat resoluton for your usecase (indoor routing).
Hint 2: The indoor topic is only in use within a very small part of the OSM community. So expect some refuses/critics if you add such data to the global OSM database.
Hint 3: In some countries are floorplans also intellectual property, so copy&trace might be a copyright infridgement.

Answer 3

Although that's not what it was made for, you could check out indoo.rs. You can use the product without indoor localization, but indoor map creation and indoor navigation.