Workspace Mapping Services
Map & floor plan creation and conversion
Streamline your workspace booking & collaboration.
OVERVIEW
Essential Indoor Map Creation
Does your workspace booking solution use interactive maps?
Essential specialises in designing interactive floor plans that enhance workspace booking experiences.
Our expertise ensures that your floor plans are not only visually appealing but also functionally robust, facilitating seamless desk and room bookings.
Whether you’re migrating existing floor plans from a legacy system to a new one (such as Microsoft Places) or simply have CAD files, PDFs or sketches as a starting point – we can help you deliver the optimal UX for your office users.
BENEFITS
The benefits our mapping services
The benefits of our floor plan design services include:
- Faster, easier booking – Clear, intuitive layouts help users quickly find and reserve desks or rooms.
- Branded, informative maps – Custom designs reflect your brand and showcase key amenities like meeting rooms, catering points, and collaboration zones.
- Flexible input options – We can convert legacy maps (e.g. into Microsoft Places IMDF) or create new ones from CAD files, hand sketches…whatever you have!
- User-first experience – Every design is built around ease of use to support adoption and workplace efficiency.
Get Ready to Go Places
We create geo-referenced floor plans in the Indoor Mapping Data Format (IMDF), ready for Microsoft Places.
Whether you’re starting from a CAD file, PDF, image, or even a hand-drawn sketch, our service goes beyond map creation. We will help your team ensure that all bookable resources are correctly defined and structured so they can be easily surfaced in Microsoft 365.
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What our customers have to say about us
What our customers have to say
“Essential has transformed our workspaces and car parks into intuitive, easily navigated interactive maps, making it simple for our people to select and book their ideal places when scheduling their office days.”
Ryan Arif Workplace Improvement Lead HRD & Facilities, Ageas
What our customers have to say
Our workspace booking system means we are able to accommodate our growing workforce without increasing our office footprint and the costs to the environment that this entails.
Sarah Wood, Executive Manager, United Trust Bank
What our customers have to say
Our newly re-worked office facilities and workspace booking system, puts us in good stead to offer a very attractive hybrid working environment to both existing and prospective employees.
Tilly McHugh, Operations Manager at Haysmacintyre LLP
What our customers have to say
“To help with the rollout of our socially distanced desk booking service, Essential provided us with Colart-branded ‘how to’ videos. This, along with interactive floor-plans that reflect our company look and feel, will help our workforce quickly transition to a new way of using our workspace”
