Mappr, indoor maps for big buildings
Maria (17) & Rosalie (17)
Camp students · two of the five students on the team
About the project
Outdoor maps stop at the entrance of a building. Mappr keeps going, room by room and lift by lift, so you can type where you are going and follow the line to the right door.
The idea came from the first morning of the camp, when the team could not find their own room at ETH Zurich. They built the app to work for wheelchair users and blind people too, with step-free routes that only use lifts and ramps the team checked.
- 40+
- rooms mapped in the ETH main building
- 2
- lifts marked step-free and checked by hand
- 5 days
- from the first sketch to a live site
In their own words
How the week came together
- Find the problemCollect the stories of getting lost in a hospital, a school or a station, and pick the last hundred metres to fix.
- Map the buildingGive every room, lift and stairwell in the ETH main building its own address.
- Route step-freeCheck the lifts by hand and only draw routes that use lifts and ramps open at that hour.
- Time the walkWalk the routes to get real timings, lift wait included.
- LaunchPut the site live and present it at the end of the week.
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