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Please refer to How do I fill out the Point of Interests List (spreadsheet)? to guide you in preparing your POI List.

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  1. In the Map Editor, click Points of Interest menu followed by POI Import.

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2. Click the green button shown below to add a new configuration.

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5. After uploading the POI list the spreadsheet will appear as below. Drag and drop the blue feature labels to each column header (i.e. External ID, Room ID in CAD, Type of room (category), Searchable names, Description, URL).

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NB: You can drag the “Searchable Name” label to multiple columns to make more more names searchable per POI.
Note that the names in one searchable name column will be used as the title of the POI in the POI card (when a POI has been clicked). This column has the highest priority set in the JSON config. Your CSM can help you out with getting the JSON priorities right.

NB: This is a screenshot of the Information box of a POI in use.mazemap.com. While most of the data/information from the other columns go directly to the floorplan configuration, those in the URL and Description columns as shown above, go directly to this POI Information box, thus, turning an ordinary POI into a Rich POI.

Label name

Function

Corresponding column

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If

there are more than one building in the campus, POI prefixes need to be set on

room IDs in the CAD files are similar across floor plans/buildings, then the floors need to be identifiable. This is done by setting the POI prefixes the POI import main page. Typically the POI-prefix is the building ID + floor level, and the Floor Prefix label is to applied to

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column in the POI list that matches this.

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The room IDs that matches the labels in room polygons in the floor plan CAD file.

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The POI names. Often this label is connected to the “Room ID” column.
You can drag the “Searchable Name” label to multiple columns to make more more names searchable for each POI.
Note that the names in one searchable name column will be used as the title of the POI in the POI card (when a POI has been clicked). This column has the highest priority set in the JSON config. Your CSM can help you out with getting the JSON priorities right.

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The room type / category (e.g. Accessible Toilet, Office, Corridor etc).
When applying this label, the room types from the POI list (called “External types”), can be used to set up the POI categories under the menu “Types”.

Note: Our system can only operate with one type per POI, so this label should only been applied to one column.

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The identifiers are the unique location codes for each POI/room. Typically a concatenation of campus ID, building ID and room ID. These are used to set up linkable tags

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Import and publish POI data

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