{"id":739,"date":"2021-02-26T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/2021\/02\/26\/apples-indoor-maps-format-is-now-a-standard-heres-why-that-matters\/"},"modified":"2021-02-26T18:04:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T18:04:00","slug":"apples-indoor-maps-format-is-now-a-standard-heres-why-that-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/2021\/02\/26\/apples-indoor-maps-format-is-now-a-standard-heres-why-that-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s indoor maps format is now a standard; here&#8217;s why that matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<section class=\"page\">\n<p>Apple Maps is essential to future innovation, from autonomous vehicles to AR experiences, so it&#8217;s noteworthy that Apple\u2019s own <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/videos\/play\/wwdc2019\/245\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indoor Mapping Data Format<\/a> (IMDF) has been adopted as a community standard for indoor positioning services.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is IMDF?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>IMDF has been accepted as a community standard by the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.ogc.org\/cs\/20-094\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Open Geospatial Consortium<\/a> in response to proposals from a cross-industry group that includes Apple, Google, Autodesk, and Ordnance Survey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jumpTag\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3609852\/apples-indoor-maps-format-is-now-a-standard-heres-why-that-matters.html#jump\">To read this article in full, please click here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Maps is essential to future innovation, from autonomous vehicles to AR experiences, so it&#8217;s noteworthy that Apple\u2019s own Indoor Mapping Data Format (IMDF) has been adopted as a community standard for indoor positioning services. What is IMDF? IMDF has been accepted as a community standard by the Open Geospatial Consortium in response to proposals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}