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A Framework for Creating and Using Maps of Privately Owned Spaces

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Location and Context Awareness (LoCA 2009)

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The Facility Map Framework (FMF) is a new system of specifications and software for maps of privately owned spaces – campus, building, room detail, and shelf or rack. Based on a generic object model, FMF supports map authoring from CAD or other drawings, asset databases and location sensor systems, map access through browsers or applications, and development of application programs. FMF can integrate existing system components to support interoperability and extensibility, and has features to address a number of additional engineering problems in location systems for private spaces. FMF is a work in progress, with many key elements implemented and others currently under design. Several demos are now in place, representing a variety of different scenarios for using indoor maps. This paper gives an overview of the system components and a number of the engineering challenges and solutions; it represents a progress report on this evolving project.

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    Steven Shafer

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  1. Computer Science Department, NH 03755, Dartmouth, Hanover, USA

    Tanzeem Choudhury

  2. Complex & Adaptive Systems Laboratory, School of Computer Science & Informatics, University College Dublin, Belfield Office Park, Dublin 4, Ireland

    Aaron Quigley

  3. Institute of Communications and Navigation, German Aerospace Center, 82234 Wessling/Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, and Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), University of Innsbruck, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria

    Thomas Strang

  4. Semiconductor Group R&D Division, Sony Corporation, 1-11-1 Osaki, Shinagawa-ku, 141-0032, Tokyo, Japan

    Koji Suginuma

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Shafer, S. (2009). A Framework for Creating and Using Maps of Privately Owned Spaces. In: Choudhury, T., Quigley, A., Strang, T., Suginuma, K. (eds) Location and Context Awareness. LoCA 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5561. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01721-6_11

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