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    Jeanne

GoodMaps announces breakthrough indoor positioning technology to power
accessible navigation application.
www.goodmaps.com
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GoodMaps is proud to announce the release of GoodMaps Explore, an
accessible wayfinding app designed primarily for people who are blind
or visually impaired, which sets a new standard for indoor navigation
across the globe. GoodMaps Explore uses audio instructions to
communicate routing and critical spatial information as users move
through a space, whether indoors or outdoors, drawing upon GoodMaps’
state-of-the-art digital maps. In doing so, GoodMaps has solved four
problems that have frustrated the field for several decades by:

1. delivering superior positioning accuracy with minimal infrastructure,
2. dramatically speeding the process to digitally map a building,
which provides the foundation for the app,
3. creating a way for building owners to securely control their mapping data,
4. providing the public with a complete package of maps with an app to
actually use them.


The GoodMaps Advantage

Superior Accuracy with Simple Infrastructure
Whereas indoor navigation technology in the past has been inaccurate
and relied on expensive, burdensome infrastructure, GoodMaps Explore
draws upon camera-based positioning, a technique that utilizes sensors
and a device’s camera to achieve superior accuracy, with average
accuracy of 1.5 meters (~5 feet) or less – all through minimal
hardware to install and at a small fraction of the time it used to
take.

The key to this advancement is GoodMaps’ revolutionary indoor
positioning system, which combines Augmented Reality and sensors on a
device with a new system developed by Fantasmo, a GoodMaps partner.
This system delivers accurate indoor location without the use of
cumbersome beacons or other similar hardware. The result is a trusted
and reliable wayfinding experience for people who are blind, with
virtually no infrastructure to install and maintain.


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