1.
YVR & the Indoor
Mapping Experience
Carlos Silva
GIS Specialist, Vancouver International Airport

2.
CHALLENGING
Mapping Vertical Space in 2D can be

3.
YVR: 4 yrs ago (pre-GIS)
Internal: Mostly CAD, Floor
Layouts updated 3-6 mo post
construction (as-builts)
Rooms/BOMA shapes &
Room #s key to Mapping All
Things
Public Terminal Maps:
graphic design pamphlet
(PDF)
http://www.yvr.ca/en/passeng
ers/navigate-yvr/terminal-
maps

4.
How the Mapping
Process Works @YVR
1st Stage "Internal", FME: CAD BOMA polygons (10+ CAD files; 4200+ Rooms) &
lease/operational database attributes collected (internal); QA/QC'd (ArcMap/SQL);
weekly attribute updates
2nd Stage "Public", FME: Rooms merged/aggregated on specific attributes (pre/post
security, back of house, passenger areas, based on Sector, Security, Room Description);
further QA/QC (FME) & manual substitutions/edits (via ArcMap)
3rd Stage "Uploads" via FME: Nightly auto conversion to GeoJSON & uploaded to YVR
Digital Gateway for YVR App Developers & YVR Website Developers with HTTP calls
4th Stage, "Apple AVF": further FME refinement of "Public Rooms" & process other
internal datasets (doors, jurisdictional boundary, etc) to AVF spec; (manual upload to
Map Connects)

5.
STAGE 1: Make an
Internal Floor Map(OMG, WTF
Clean this up ASAP!!!)
Imagery via Giphy.com,, from the TV Show “Scrubs”: http://gph.is/28JV6VM

6.
STANDARDS
MATTER!
(so does
documentation &
great schema)

7.
Courtesy of XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/
Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.5)

8.
YVR Rooms =
BOMA
shapes/polygons
DocOffice Buildings:
Standard Methods of
Measurement
(ANSI/BOMA Z65.1-
2010),

9.
FME:
CAD BOMAS à GIS

10.
STAGE 2: Floor
Plans for a Public
App
Imagery via Giphy.com,, from the TV Show “The Muppet Show”:
http://gph.is/1eJAZCR

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FME:
GIS BOMAS à GIS “Public Rooms”

12.
YVR MAIN
TERMINALS
L3
“Public Room”

13.
ArcMap: QA/QC
Map Production;
Data Verification & Edits;
Map & Feature Services (Internal Only)

14.
QA/QC
LIKE CRAZY

15.
Automate, Automate, Automate
Avoid Spatial Substitutions
As Much as Possible
TAKE MY ADVICE:

16.
STAGE 3:
DATA DELIVERY
Imagery via Giphy.com,, http://gph.is/2dw1Bfa

17.
YVR Digital Gateway

18.
STAGE 4: APPLE VENUE FORMAT
(AVF)
• More conversions of the “public
data”
• Totally separate FME workbench
• “GeoJSON files wrapped in a
ZIP”
• TIP: make your door entrances
lines not points (for “Openings”)
CONTACT APPLE FOR MORE
INFO & DETAILS;
SIGN UP @
Apple Maps Connect
mapsconnect.apple.com

19.
Where is YVR now?
1) Public Terminal Maps (PDFs, Hard Copy Pamphlet, Website Maps (Leaflet with GeoJSON)
2) Internally: CAD 2 GIS via FME, accessible on an internal GIS application
3) YVR App & Website: Data Delivery via YVR Digital Gateway

20.
Typical Issues/Solutions
• Timeliness (room closures/areas open/notifications)
• Spatial errors/topology
• Additional data points (sources) changing & in-conflict
• Schema Changes (YVR doors (points)/Apple AVF doors
(lines))
• Data Holes: single wall lines vs plenty of CAD arch’l lines
• software & DB updates (backend time away from QA/QC)
• I.T. updates (eg. changes to servers; software)
KEY: Automate the conversions, & non-spatial attribute sources
KEY: use common data standards (GeoJSON 2.0!); data
schemas pre-defined; DOCUMENTATION HELPS A LOT!
KEY: API access (minimal manual uploads/downloads)

21.
THANK YOU!
E: carlos_silva@yvr.ca
Twitter: @arcvancouver