Apple’s cool ‘Indoor Survey’ app maps venues using radio frequencies, but you can’t use it

Nov02

by Sindy Cator on November 2, 2015 at 7:32 pm

Apple may be getting into the indoor mapping game. An app has been discovered that lets users map the inside of a building using their phones. Unfortunately, it’s not for the casual user. The app was discovered buried in the App Store; it wasn’t even discoverable via Search, nor was it listed as an official Apple app under the company’s profile. Here’s how it works: when a user walks through a venue, they drop ‘pins.’ As users drop pins, the app uses the radio frequency signal along with an iPhone’s sensor data to create an indoor map. Well this is…