About | newmap

Engineers and designers who think getting lost in a building should not be normal.

Why we started this

We kept watching people get lost inside buildings they had never visited before: hospitals with identical corridors, campuses spread across city blocks, airports where gates hide behind retail floors, malls where stores blur into an endless grid. The signs were never enough, and asking for directions is a last resort, not a solution.

Outdoor navigation is solved. Indoor navigation is not. That gap is what we are closing.

What we build

newmap turns complex buildings into spaces people can actually navigate. Maps, directions, and interfaces on the devices people already carry.

Interactive indoor maps that load in any web browser. They work without an app store, installation, or accounts.
Turn-by-turn directions that account for stairs, elevators, accessibility needs, and actual obstacles.
Live updates when rooms change, routes close, or new areas open.
Usage insights that show facilities teams how people actually move through the space.

The team

We are a small team. We plan to grow alongside our first deployments.

Engineering: maps, routing algorithms, and the systems that make them fast and reliable
Design: interfaces that disappear so the user can focus on where they are going, not on how to use the tool

How we work

Every building is different, so we work with the people who know the space: facilities teams, operations staff, front-desk workers. You bring the floor plans. We bring the maps, routing, and interface. We make it work together.

That shows up in how we operate, too:

Build for the user first. The best navigation is the one you do not have to think about.
Ship early, iterate fast. Real deployments teach us more than prototypes ever will.
Stay independent. We use open-source tools and avoid vendor lock-in.
Work openly. We publish case studies from every partnership.

Where we are headed

We start with web-based wayfinding because it deploys fast and works everywhere. From there, the map grows.

Directions will learn how people actually move through a space: predicting congestion, adjusting routes in real time, getting sharper with use. Cross-platform apps will bring offline access, deeper integrations, and accessibility features that go beyond what a browser can offer.

Eventually, the same layer that guides someone to room 247 can handle what happens when they arrive: registrations in a hospital, inventory in a supermarket, scheduling on a campus. Navigation becomes the link between people and the building’s own systems.

Current status