Does anyone know any good GPS navigation apps for the interiors of buildings. For example being in a very large international airport.
Marconius2 points7y ago
Not just yet, but there are a few applications that are working on Bluetooth beacon indoor navigation technology. This relies both on the user having the application and the location having the Bluetooth beacons installed. Keep an eye out for Sendero Products, as they were testing the Bluetooth Beacon functionality at the lighthouse here in San Francisco a few months ago.
Unuhi2 points7y ago
In huge airports, in theory something like blindsquare gps might work. It takes the locations from foursquare. But the last time i tried that at heathrow i think they had rearranged everything. The app kept telling me about places I don't think were there any more, or that i could find in the goven distance and direction. Although it should work when there are ibeacons that are properly set up...
Some of my friends use ariadne. Maybe that's another alternative.
Yea, it would be nice to get indoor locations of stuff in places like airports, malls, giant offices, hospitals etc.
intrepidia1 points7y ago
There is also indoor wifi way finding products but none of them have seemed to be ready for the market yet.
modulus1 points7y ago
This is supposed to be one of the advantages of Galileo, that it can penetrate into buildings. It isn't functional yet though.
justbuyamac1 points7y ago
There is not. GPS does not function indoors (okay, it might a little but in a large building no way). Apple's iPhone and bluetooth iBeacons are there ready for someone to build a system like this but no one has invested in it, sadly.
mrg3rry1 points7y ago
I have not heard of such. the issue with GPS in a building is someone would have to create the map like Google does with street view. There is a theatre in Ontario that has an app and uses Bluetooth beacon to guide the blind.
The_Paul_Alves1 points7y ago
Well, that and the fact that you can't access the GPS satellites through brick walls. It would have to be some kind of bluetooth or enclosed system and not "GPS"
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