Apple has softly give up a new iOS app that allows users to represent out the internal spaces of a edifice using just an iPhone .
While the apps does n’t show up in search within the App Store , you’re able to snaffle it using thisdirect tie-in , firstspotted by developer Steve Troughton - Smith .
Update : The app requires a limited , registered account to be used . It ’s ill-defined who will be able to obtain such a thing .
The app ’s description reads :
“ By dropping ‘ points ’ on a map within the Survey App , you indicate your position within the locale as you take the air through . As you do so , the indoor Survey App measures the radio frequency ( RF ) signal datum and combine it with an iPhone ’s sensor data . The end result is indoor positioning without the need to instal particular ironware . ”
Applebought the pop - up wifiSLAM two years ago , and with it the company ’s ability to analyse and track RF signals from Wi - Fi admission points to maps and determine a drug user ’s location . It seems like at least some of that expertise has sneak into Indoor Survey .
Apple ’s been experiment with a series of indoor emplacement technologies over the retiring few years , quiz its iBeacons in retail storesand inviting retailers to to bow indoor maps of large , successful stores for use in Apple Maps . Using Indoor Survey to crowdsource indoor maps may finally make them a more coarse addition to the world of digital pilotage .
[ Apple Insider ]
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