Waymap

Waymap is the world’s only navigation app that guides you indoors, outdoors, and even deep underground.

Accurate up to 1m, with no signals required, Waymap can guide you through the city, down to your underground platform, onto your bus, and right to the aisle you’re looking for at the supermarket.

Installed across any city’s transport network, streets and major buildings, the app gives step-by-step guidance, as soon as you step out of your door. It works anywhere we have a map.

Waymap offers a truly inclusive, accessible solution to city transport: allowing more people to use the railway network, and enabling the public to travel with greater confidence, precision and ease. If you’re lost on the tube or can’t find your way around an indoor shopping centre, Waymap can take you exactly where you want to be.

Setting up Waymap for transport networks and cities will mean that everyone is able to access cities, shopping centres, railway networks… It will drive footfall and mean that more people are able to efficiently go more places, more often.

Waymap gives people with disabilities, particularly those vision-related, the freedom to travel with true independence. The app also improves customer satisfaction scores for all customers and reduces some of the stress involved with interpreting signage and understanding new networks, particularly for older adults.

Our data shows that a significant percentage of blind passengers would find using public transport independently much easier with Waymap available and increase the number of passengers with disabilities travelling on the network.

Waymap also helps passenger greeting services operate more efficiently, so that staff and passengers with disabilities can find each other more easily, avoiding associated journey disruption, stress, and ensuring network timetables run without disruption. This allows staff more time to focus on their day-to-day duties.

• Location accuracy up to 1m and heading accuracy up to 10 degrees.
• Useable on-screen, or through audio-prompts. Waymap avoids the need to handle your smartphone in public places and enables vision-impaired users to maintain the use of their primary mobility aid.
• Waymap is system and approach tried and tested in cities across North America and Europe, and is deeply grounded in research into independent travel for people with disabilities.

Waymap emerged from experimentation in audio navigation in the UK by the Royal Society for Blind Children, alongside breakthrough advancements in indoor location technology. The result is a team with a deep understanding of the navigation needs of all people and a revolutionary, high-technology approach.