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Quick Transitions Between Indoor and Outdoor Maps

Assigned to: Google LLC

Patent:

Free for public use from 2034 onward.

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.