How to Import your POI List to your campus

Please refer to How do I fill out the Point of Interests 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.

Uploading the POI-list

1. 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: 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
	If there are more than one building in the campus, POI prefixes need to be set on the POI import main page. Typically the POI-prefix is the building ID, and the Floor Prefix label is to applied to the building ID column 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 on the screenshot of the spreadsheet above. Then go back to the Point of Interest sub-menu, click “Run Update”. Follow the steps below to finish the update.

7. Click “Import POI data”.
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.

8. When you are satisfied with the changes and you are ready for them to go live, click “Start publish process” and all these changes will be visible in the live map.