ArcGIS Indoors Blog

Learn about trainings offered by Esri Academy to start learning about indoor GIS and ArcGIS Indoors as well as how to implement it within your college campus.

ArcGIS Indoors provides a strong core, but gets a boost when stretched, strengthened, and flexed to meet unique requirements and challenges.

Read this article to learn the flexibility of indoor mapping and how to push it beyond the "limit"—customizing and extending its capabilities to meet the diverse and complex needs of campus operations.

The Henry Ford Museum's (THF) ArcGIS Indoors Pilot Project and Workflow Analysis showcased the value of geospatial technology in advancing a smart campus initiative.

By leveraging ArcGIS Indoors, the project enhanced facility management, space planning, and visitor experiences. Through the integration of numerous cutting-edge technologies—THF explored innovative ways to optimize operations and historic digital preservation.

The project demonstrated the power and feasibility of ArcGIS Indoors for wayfinding, emergency response, and historic storytelling, laying the groundwork for future expansion.

Explore Indoor GIS at Esri's 2025 Federal GIS Conference. Learn about sessions and showcase activities at the event.

At ArcGIS Pro 3.4, users can now use point cloud data as a source for populating an ArcGIS Indoors dataset. This article explores requirements, recommendations, tips and tricks when preparing to collect and process LiDAR point cloud data that will work well in ArcGIS Indoors workflows.

As of the 11.4 release, the tile cache data store is deprecated. In a future release, it will no longer be supported.

• The ArcGIS Data Store tile cache data store is leveraged as the underlying storage mechanism to support hosted scene layers in ArcGIS Enterprise.
• In ArcGIS Enterprise 11.4, this type of ArcGIS Data Store is deprecated and its functionality is replaced by the object store.

Introducing GIS users to the concept of ‘floor awareness" is a vital step in transforming digital floor plans into GIS within the ArcGIS platform. This post offers a comprehensive look at what it means to be floor-aware in the context of ArcGIS Indoors guidance on creating floor-aware maps using ArcGIS Pro.

Learn what's new in the ArcGIS Indoors November release.

Smart airports are utilizing GIS technology to streamline maintenance workflows and compliance. This blog post explores how Airports are utilizing ArcGIS to enhance safety, compliance, and operational efficiency.

This article highlights how ArcGIS for AutoCAD, ArcGIS GeoBIM, and ArcGIS Indoors tools streamline collaboration between CAD and GIS professionals, enable synchronized data editing, and improve project efficiency.