Bring your GIS Indoors: Resources to Get Started and Scale

By Shree Rajagopalan

Last updated on July 1, 2026

Indoor GIS is a unified floor-aware ArcGIS system for visualizing, analyzing, and managing indoor spaces. It’s powered by indoor maps created with ArcGIS Indoors and indoor positioning can be overlaid through indoor positioning. Indoor GIS capability allows organizations to create detailed maps of indoor environments, such as buildings, campuses, and facilities, to support four primary patterns of use: asset management, space management, safety and security, and occupant and visitor experience.

The indoors team at Esri has compiled a list of resources that you can explore to get started with bringing your GIS indoors.

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See Indoor GIS in Action at Esri UC 2026

Esri User Conference 2026 (July 13–17, San Diego) brings together GIS professionals from across the globe and Indoor GIS has a significant presence throughout the week. From the opening plenary to technical workshops, demo theater sessions, user presentations, to the showcase, ArcGIS Indoors and indoor positioning will be on full display.

Key Topics to Review

ArcGIS IPS will no longer be sold as a separate, for-cost product and starting in Q4 2026, it will no longer require a separate license.	Simplifying Indoor Positioning in ArcGIS
Digital twins are more than 3D visualizations. True operational value comes when they actively support day-to-day facility management.	Indoor GIS and The Role it Plays in Operational Digital Twins
Turn 360° video into spatially accurate, immersive imagery, enabling richer and more engaging understanding of indoor maps.	Preparing Immersive Indoor Imagery from 360-degree video
Transform the way organizations build a foundational indoor GIS with reality capture technologies, including lidar and 360° cameras.	Building an Indoor GIS with reality capture
Overlay live location data on floor-aware indoor maps to enable mobile workers, facility teams, and first responders to navigate complex buildings, track assets, and more.	Navigating Indoor Spaces and Day-to-Day Workflows with Indoor Positioning
Connect indoor GIS with existing facility management platforms to unlock powerful capabilities for data-driven decision-making that optimizes operations across the entire infrastructure lifecycle.	ArcGIS Indoors and Facility Management Systems
Put the power of indoor map creation directly in the hands of facilities and operations staff to make it faster and easier than ever to create, update, and maintain accurate floor-aware indoor maps.	Easy indoor map making with Floor Plan Editor
GIS-based indoor maps deliver far greater value than static floor plans by enabling accurate location validation, real-time situational awareness, and seamless interoperability with NG 911 systems.	Ten ways GIS extends the value of indoor maps and NG911
ArcGIS enables organizations to rapidly assemble a fully functional digital twin, linking existing spatial data, real-time feeds, and 3D models in days rather than months.	Create a digital twin in seven days with ArcGIS

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Read about Customer Successes

Transportation \| Airports	Denver International Airport supports daily operations, improves coordination across terminals, and enhances space management by tracking and analyzing how indoor spaces are used throughout the airport
Transportation \| Airports	Miami International Airport leverages ArcGIS Indoors to create detailed interactive maps of concession spaces, enabling better planning, operations, and decision making
Public Safety	The City of Frisco integrated ArcGIS Indoors with its SAFER platform and fire RMS to enhance public safety
K – 12 Education	Wake County Public School System implements ArcGIS Indoors district wide
K – 12 Education	Bringing indoor mapping to the Delaware County intermediate unit
K – 12 Education	Helping Baltimore County Public Schools build a sustainable indoor GIS program
Infrastructure \| Water	Clark County Water Reclamation District Transforms Wastewater Operations with ArcGIS Indoors and Digital Twin Technology
Infrastructure \| Water	Raleigh Water enables vertical asset management program using ArcGIS Indoors and Cityworks to generate 2D and 3D representations of their interior spaces.
Higher Education	How the University of Notre Dame transformed campus operations with ArcGIS Indoors
Higher Education	Baylor University uses ArcGIS Indoors to enable more efficient maintenance coordination, real-time space analytics, and shared access across departments
Higher Education	University of Rhode Island uses ArcGIS Indoors to transform their GIS into a strategic tool for smarter campus management
Higher Education	Michigan State University employs ArcGIS Indoors to create interactive mapping system that facilitates indoor wayfinding and maintenance management on campus.
Higher Education	Rutgers University uses ArcGIS Indoors to create an indoor map of the university’s most complex building and enable student wayfinding.
Higher Education	Brigham Young University-Idaho optimizes campus space planning and asset tracking with ArcGIS Indoors.
Higher Education	ETH Zurich uses ArcGIS IPS to provide barrier-free real-time indoor navigation across its campus, enhancing the occupant and visitor experience.
Higher Education	Austin Community College District enhances campus navigation with ArcGIS Indoors Viewer.
Healthcare	Loma Linda University Health demonstrates how they have used indoor GIS to help drive asset management, patient wayfinding, and employee desk reservation systems in a hybrid workspace.
Government	King County uses ArcGIS Indoors to leverage indoor space management to effectively meet requirements of their hybrid workplace model.
Defense	Mountain Home Air Force Base engineering team uses ArcGIS Indoors to visualize indoor spaces, navigate the base, and optimize space management.

Happy indoors-ing!

Shree Rajagopalan

I am a Principal Product Marketing Manager at Esri who is responsible for messaging, positioning, and branding for an elite portfolio of products. Outside of work, I love traveling and I am a novice birder!

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