How to Import your POI List to your campus

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

However, if you are going to import the list (spreadsheet) for your External (outdoors) POIs with long-lat coordinates, please refer to POI Import for External POIs .

This document will discuss the following:

How to import (upload) the list/spreadsheet of your indoor POIs to the Map Editor tool.
How to properly tag the columns in the POI list so the room data will be shown correctly in the maps (i.e., putting in POI Title, setting types or categories, giving different searchable names to your POIs etc, in bulk).
How to make your POIs richer by putting in specific URLs and Descriptions for all your relevant POIs (in bulk) using your POI List
How to save and publish the changes being made.

Jump to:

1 Uploading the POI-list
2 Tag your POI-list columns
3 Import and publish POI data

Uploading the POI-list

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

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

3. A dialogue box will appear. Click and download the appropriate template (NB: “Floorplan Label Configuration” for standard POI list using CAD data to match the room data with the room polygons).

Fill it in. Save the list on your drive in Excel format. Follow the instructions shown below to upload your list.

4. Click the “Upload File button” and you’ll be directed to your drive to locate the POI list.

Tag your POI-list columns

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).

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	POI list column data

Label name	POI list column data
	If 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 column in the POI list that matches this. Note: Some customers may have a preference to how their Floor Prefixes are formatted. Floor Prefixes can affect the campus linkable tags format (which they may be using with their other integrations like timetables, resource booking, library solutions etc.)
	The room IDs that matches the labels in room polygons in the floor plan CAD file.
	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.
	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.
	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 where one part of the URL to a POI stays fixed and just the last part (the identifier) changes:
	Description of each POI. Will be included in the POI side-bar.
	URLs connected to each POI. If the POI is a café, then one could include a link to the menu.
	The text that can be clicked to access the URL
	The maximum number of people allowed in the room.
	Sensor info, resource booking mailboxes etc. Please liaise with your CSM to set up external references in the POI list.

Import and publish POI data

6. Don’t forget to click “Save changes as new version” on the left side bar, as shown here. Then you will be directed to the POI Import menu again, and click “Poi Import data” button on the right button encircled below. Follow the steps below to finish the update.

A dialogue box will appear and will show the number of POI changes.
If it looks correct then click “Perform POI Import”. Once the POI import is finished the changes from the POI-list will appear in Map Editor.

Please note that if you change a POI Type all POIs associated with that type will be changed and will show in the report.

8. When you are satisfied with the changes and you are ready for them to go live, click “Publish Changes” button on the top right side of the and all these changes will be visible in the live map.