When we started BuildingLayer in 2011, our team rallied around an ambitious vision: make lost obsolete. While outdoor navigation had been mostly solved by OSM, Google Maps, and the like, it seemed that a lot of people still found themselves lost in a building.

After 3 years of development, many challenges still remain in solving this problem:

• Access to indoor map content with respect to legal and privacy concerns
• High-precision, low-cost, reliable indoor positioning systems that operate on the major smartphone platforms
• A habit loop that triggers people to seek out digital indoor maps

While our team will not continue on this path, we hope that someone does. If we can be of any help, check out our Indoor Navigation Market list spreadsheet or drop us a line via our contact form.

In the words of poet and philosopher Dan Wilson, "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." Members of our team are now onto their next challenge: helping people in Kentucky learn to code.

-Nick and the BuildingLayer team, November 2014