Meet MapScale®
The world’s most experienced mapper

MapScale® leverages AI in two core ways:

• When the CAD file is ingested, AI trained on the thousands of maps we have created works out which architectural features equal which map features – from four walls and a door meaning a room, to telling apart many room types, interpreting open areas, identifying stairwells and elevators, and leaving out details that don't belong on the map.
• Once the map is created, MapScale®'s Large Language Model (LLM) parses the text in the CAD file and the map itself to interpret, contextualise and categorise rooms, areas and points of interest – using the building type to decide, for example, that a room is a waiting room in a healthcare facility but a meeting room in a workplace.

The more MapScale® is used and corrected by human oversight, the more accurate it becomes. For more on AI mapping, check out this post.

MapScale® was born when a major US retailer told us their maps for thousands of stores were being created and updated one by one in image-editing software – it could take weeks or months to refresh an outdated map.

Enterprises need a solution that scales. AI lets us apply years of indoor-mapping expertise to automate the work that used to take people the most time – building the map from the original file, then tagging room types and building features.

MapScale® detects map features with 95% consistency, but edge cases remain – such as unfamiliar features or building types it hasn't seen often. That's why it uses a traffic-light system whenever a map is updated with a new CAD file, alerting you if a large part of the map has changed (for example, if the wrong file was uploaded).

Some maps also need a few human finishing touches, like logos or opening hours on a restaurant's listing. When a new file is uploaded, MapScale® remembers those human additions and keeps them.

No two maps are the same, so there's no single figure – but at scale there's no comparison. MapScale® can update hundreds of maps in a matter of minutes, work that could take a person days.

We believe MapScale® is one of a kind, with no direct competitor. We have, however, compared its ability to classify and identify mapping features with LLMs such as ChatGPT – the results are published in our AI mapping benchmark.