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? Are you thinking of migrating to Microsoft Places?
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.
*When using services such as Microsoft Places, maps follow a fixed visual style and cannot be branded or customised. We design floor plans specifically for these constraints, ensuring the layout remains clear, logical, and easy to navigate.
Microsoft Places Map Creation Services
We create geo-referenced floor plans in the Indoor Mapping Data Format (IMDF), ready for Microsoft Places.
Our low-cost service goes beyond map creation.
- We will work with your FM team to ensure the best UX, and can start from a CAD file, PDF, image, or even a hand-drawn sketch.
- We will help your IT team get all the relevant resources configured and hand-hold the map upload process.
- Our white-glove service ensures any changes to your floor plans – or updates introduced by Microsoft – can be implemented quickly, ensuring your maps stay accurate and up to date.
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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 & 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”
