Quick Transitions Between Indoor and Outdoor Maps
Free for public use from 2034 onward.
Assigned to: Google LLC
- US 9,417,777 B2 United States in force until 2034
A base map that carries a little indoor data — which floors a building has, and a default floor — alongside the outdoor map. A client can then show a floor picker for a multi-storey building right away, and switch between floors, without first fetching a separate indoor dataset.
From the indoor-mapping work on Google Maps.