title: Is it possible to create IndoorMaps like airports from Apple with IMDF?
body: <p>Im quite confused about creating an IndoorMap for our company to display it on iPad's.
  Regarding to the new <a href="https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2019/245" rel="nofollow noreferrer">IndoorMaps-Program from Apple</a> I thought I found the perfect solution. Nice examples are shown at some airports in the official Maps App. 
  But the more I dig deeper into this topic, I understand less and less.</p>
  
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  <li>At airport indoor maps, provided by Apple directly, the max. zoom level is nearly disabled. You can zoom insanely deep into the indoor map (close to 5m). When I am creating a map with MapKit I can zoom not even close enough to a building, to fill it fullscreen. Is it even possible to get that zoom level as a private developer?</li>
  <li><p>In <a href="https://register.apple.com/resources/indoor/Apple-Indoor-Maps-Guidelines.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">the documentation</a> about IMDF-files they mentioned, that as an private developer,</p>
  
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    <p>you will need to create IMDF yourselves. The good news is there are a number of third party platforms and tools that can make creating and updating IMDF easier. See section on <strong>third party platforms</strong> below.</p>
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  <p>So I studied these third party platforms and noticed, that I can only create IMDF, when I am using it together with their provided software and map-SDK's. So I would make me dependent to another platform and SDK, which isn't in my interest. I didn't found anything about one platform/software to simply convert some floor plans to IMDF. Where is the trick? Am I thinking to complicated? </p></li>
  <li><p>The most confusing part of IMDF is: What is IMDF exactly? Third party platforms advertise it with the new <strong><em>file</em></strong> for indoor maps. Apple on the other hand, mentioned that</p>
  
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    <p>IMDF is a data model that is used to describe an indoor space. IMDF is output as a set of GeoJSON files. </p>
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  <p>So is it a file or a format? Would it be enough to get a tool to create GeoJSON-files?</p></li>
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  <p>Maybe somebody got a little bit experience with this topic and can get me some hints for my questions or can even suggest another simpler and better solution to display indoor maps for example warehouses.</p>