Manage places

  • Release version: Yokohama
  • Updated January 30, 2025
  • 3 minutes to read

    • Edit campus and buildings to add places, icons, and place types that you want to display on the indoor maps.

    Before you begin

    Place Types are used to define a physical location on your map, it can be a polygon or a point depending on if a place corresponds to a room or just a place in your map. Places are linked to place types and are used to categorize the different places on your map (example: meeting room, office, printer, parks, staircase, elevators, etc). Places also have markers showing the place title.
    Note:
    Places can either be automatically generated by a CAD import or have to be manually created with a raster import. For more information, see Import Raster files and Import CAD files to Map Studio.

    Role required: map admin, map editor, map editor limited

    Procedure

    1. Navigate to All > Indoor Mapping > Map Studio.
    2. Select a campus.
      The campus opens in the Map Studio home page.
    3. To edit and manage places, select a building.
    4. On the map menu, select Manage Places.
    5. Select the floor on which you want your places to display on your maps.
    6. Click New point or New polygon to start creating places and new points of interest.
    7. Select New point.
      Figure 1. Create a new Point
      create a new point
    8. Click on the map to position the point.
      On the form, fill in the form fields
      Table 1. Place edit panel
      Name Label name for a space.
      Note:
      Use a unique name for each space for ease of identifying the spaces on a map (not visible to the end user).
      Title Title displayed on the map.
      Place type Place Types are used to categorize Places (example, Meeting rooms, Desks, etc.). It also provides a default Icon which can be customized later in the view editor.
      Floor Floor to which places and place types are added.
      Note:
      If places in a CAD file are configured using the Autocad Import tool (Indoor Mapping v.18.0), only the Place type field is editable in the Place edit panel. The Name, Title, and Floor are read-only fields. For more information, see Configure places.
    9. Select New polygon to add polygons or points respectively.
    10. Click on the map to draw a polygon for a place, and close the polygon by clicking on the blue point or dot.
      Polygons can be used when you do not have a building in campus.
    11. Make sure you close the shape by completing or ending the creation back on the first point.
      On the form, fill in the fields
      Table 2. Place edit
      Field Description
      Name Label name to identify a specific place (not visible to the end user).
      Title Title as it appears on the map.
      Place type Place Types name. The place types are used to define a physical location on your map, it can be a polygon or a point depending on if this place corresponds to a room or just a place in your map ( cafeteria, booth, elevator, auditorium, etc).
      Floor Floor names. The places and place types are created for a selected floor.
      Add a Marker Marker on the map. Add a marker to see the location pin on the map. Markers define the icon (image) of place and identifies a location on your map.
      Add an Entrance Entrance to a room is used by the wayfinding application. If you add an entrance, your pathway stops at the entrance.
    12. Optional: Select a place (configured using the CAD configuration page) to open the place editing panel.

      Notice that the Name, Title, and Floor are read-only fields and cannot be edited. Only the Place type field can edited. A validation message is displayed to inform that the selected place was created using an Autocad file. These fields can be edited in the Autocad Configuration page (Indoor Mapping v 1.8.0). For more information, see AutoCAD import tool and Configure places.

      Selected place in Map Studio showing created in Autocad message.

    13. Click Save.
    14. To switch from a point to a polygon, click the other options icon (Other options) on the Place Edit panel and select Switch to a polygon.

      When you select a place, the Place Edit panel shows the CAD file properties such as room, capacity, etc. The AutoCAD properties are stored in a dedicated table sn_map_core_place_properties. For more information, see Compute CAD file properties to extract space or room surface area.

      The Indoor Mapping application provides the ability to extract room dimension from CAD files and to use it in Workplace Service Delivery rooms and space measurements.