Indoor heatmap of people locations

June 10, 2020

In these covid times, it's important to get an idea of a space's occupancy, such as a building or park. Can it take more people? Are there too many? How are they spaced within the space?

Challenges#

privacy. no wants to advertise using the toilet
(but maybe you want to know if there's room in the bathroom to use the toilet before going in the door)

Prior Art#

Mazemap#

Below is a live example of how you can visualize a large set of data points on top of the indoor maps. Using the built-in heatmap layer of the MazeMap JS API, it is easy to control the visualization style and what set of points you want to visualize.
JS API Example: Heatmap Data Layer
Go to the JS API example documentation →
"You need a source of the input data points. In this example we have a json file with GeoJSON formatted data points. You could also do periodic fetching of your own data and parse it to GeoJSON on the client."