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Campus wayfinding across every building, floor and room number.

DigiMaps is campus map software for universities, colleges and schools. Map every building on one georeferenced campus, each with its own floors. Students and visitors then search a room number, find the library or an open-day talk, and follow a step-free route on a kiosk, their phone or the map on your website.

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The avenue Main building Library · Lecture hall A Student services Block B Seminar rooms · B-1.04 on L1 Block C Science labs Sports hall Covered walkway Car park You are here Main gate 1 2 3 Georeferenced · WGS84
  1. 1 Kiosk at the main gate. The route starts here.
  2. 2 Block B entrance. Room B-1.04 is on Level 1.
  3. 3 Covered walkway. Routes can prefer indoor paths.
Sheet CA-01
Drawing Wayvale University · Site plan
Levels Site

What people ask at the main gate.

New students, parents on open day, external examiners and delivery drivers all ask the same handful of questions. Each one is a search, a tile or a button on the kiosk, and the answer can go home on their phone.

  • Where is room B-1.04? Block B, Level 1. Typing “b104” finds it.
  • Which building is the library in? Main building, Ground floor.
  • Where do I go for student services? Main building, next to Lecture hall A.
  • Where is the open-day welcome talk? Lecture hall A, 10:00. What’s on has a Take me there button.
  • Is there a step-free way to Block C? Step-free routes use lifts and ramps, and can prefer indoor paths.
  • Can I keep the map on my phone? Scan the kiosk’s QR code, or open it from the university website.
Asked at the main gate of Wayvale University, a fictional campus. Each answer is a search, a tile or a button on the kiosk.

Every building keeps its own floors.

One campus is one venue in Studio, with as many buildings as you have. Each one gets its own floor picker.

  • Up to 50 floors per building. Add, rename or duplicate buildings and floors as the estate changes.
  • Georeference the campus in WGS84 so buildings sit where they really are, or keep a single building in local metres.
  • Measure one known wall and the whole plan snaps to true scale. Distances and walking times are in real metres.
  • DXF drawings import without AI. A PDF can be traced with AI assistance, and your team reviews every room.
Turning campus CAD and PDF plans into a map

Type “b104”. Get Seminar room B-1.04.

Students search the way room numbers appear on their timetable, with or without dots and dashes. The campus pack adds the words they use for everything else.

The campus pack

Home tiles
Buildings, Library, Student services, Dining, Events, Restrooms.
Search
40 synonym groups written for campuses, complete in English and Arabic.
Categories
20 categories and 35 service types, with 100 rules that read your CAD labels and 136 built-in tests.
Routing
Standard, wheelchair, reduced mobility, avoid stairs and low vision. The campus pack leaves out stroller.
Kiosk features
What’s on, for open days, talks and tours.
Theme
The campus-fresh preset, under your own colours, fonts and logo.

Publish the open-day programme once.

Add each talk and tour with its room, a picture and its repeat times. It shows under What’s on on every kiosk and phone with a Take me there button, and as an iCalendar feed that your website or signage players can read.

  • Repeating events, such as library tours every hour.
  • Notices to chosen kiosks or zones, scheduled ahead, in every venue language.
  • Between events, idle kiosks play your signage playlist.

Put the same map on the university website.

Prospective students look you up before they visit. Embed the campus map on admissions, events and department pages, and it shows the same published release as the kiosks on site.

department-page.htmlHTML
<div id="campus-map" style="height:640px"></div>

<script>
  const MAPS = 'https://maps.wayvale.example';

  const src = new URL('/v/wayvale-university', MAPS);
  src.searchParams.set('parent_origin', location.origin);
  src.searchParams.set('lang', 'en');

  const map = document.createElement('iframe');
  map.title = 'Wayvale University campus map';
  map.src = src;
  map.style.cssText = 'width:100%;height:100%;border:0';
  document.getElementById('campus-map').append(map);

  // "Find us" buttons on department pages open that place on the map.
  document.querySelectorAll('[data-unit]').forEach((button) =>
    button.addEventListener('click', () =>
      map.contentWindow.postMessage(
        { type: 'select_unit', unit_id: button.dataset.unit },
        MAPS,
      ),
    ),
  );
</script>
  • The map runs in an iframe and only exchanges messages with the exact origin of your page.
  • Your page can select a place, switch floors or send the visitor to a destination.
  • Links can open the map with a destination and language already set.
  • A JavaScript SDK (plain JavaScript, React, web component) is available on request. It is not on npm yet.
REST API, live channel, webhooks and embeds

Example scenario, not a customer

Open day at Wayvale University.

A fictional campus with four buildings and six kiosks. One family’s morning, and what the screens did for them.

  1. 1

    09:40

    Main gate kiosk

    A parent and a prospective student tap What’s on, choose the 10:00 welcome talk, switch on Step-free and scan the QR code. The route opens on their phone.

  2. 2

    10:50

    Lecture hall A

    They type “b104” on the phone for the next subject talk. With indoor paths preferred, the route crosses to Block B by the covered walkway.

  3. 3

    11:05

    Admissions office · Studio

    A talk moves to a bigger room. Staff change the event’s place in Studio, and What’s on shows the new room on every screen within seconds.

  4. 4

    12:30

    Block C entrance

    The Block C lift is out of service. The kiosk says no step-free way to Level 1 is open and flags a best-effort route, so they ask a student guide.

Step-free routes and kiosk reach mode in detail

Questions universities ask us

Is DigiMaps the same as Digimap?

No. DigiMaps is indoor wayfinding software made by DigiSigns, a digital signage company in New Delhi. It has no connection with Digimap, the map data service that EDINA runs for universities and colleges in the UK.

Can it cover the outdoor paths between buildings?

Yes. On a georeferenced campus every building sits at its real position (WGS84), and the paths between buildings are part of the walking graph, drawn by your team or by ours. An outdoor basemap is optional, and it is switched off in the on-premises server build.

Can students search by room number?

Yes. Room numbers match without separators, so “b104” finds B-1.04, and Arabic-Indic digits work too. Search also forgives one wrong letter in longer words and knows everyday words, so “loo” finds the restrooms.

Can we embed the map on the university website?

Yes. The map runs in an iframe on any page, and your page can talk to it with postMessage, for example to open a building from a “Find us” button. A JavaScript SDK with React and web-component wrappers is available on request; it is not published on npm yet.

Does the map show where I am on campus?

On a kiosk, the route starts from the kiosk’s fixed position. On a phone, visitors pick a start or arrive from a kiosk QR code, and on a georeferenced campus the phone can use GPS after the visitor taps locate-me, but GPS alone never drives turn-by-turn guidance. A blue dot inside buildings needs a commissioned positioning pilot.

Can each department edit its own rooms?

Roles are set per venue, not per building or department. A content editor can change names and opening hours across the campus, staff with the live-content grant can post events and notices, and changes to the map itself need a map editor or admin. Enterprise SSO via SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect lets staff sign in to Studio with university accounts.

Bring us the three buildings people ask about most.

Send us the site plan and the floor plans for those buildings. On a 30-minute call we show the campus pack on a demo venue, with room-number search and an open-day programme in What’s on, and tell you what we would need to map your estate in a pilot. We are looking for our first pilot campuses.

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