Wayfinding draws a route line across your map and shows an estimated walk time, so a visitor can pick a destination and be guided straight to it. It needs two things in place: a walkable path network drawn into your level images, and landmarks marked as destinations. Then you switch it on and tune how it looks.
Before you start: paths and destinations
Wayfinding follows lines you draw into your level SVGs — a network of walkable paths that connect your spaces. Draw these into the level artwork itself (in your SVG editor) before turning wayfinding on. Landmarks then become the places a visitor can route to.
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Draw a walkable path network
In each level's SVG image, draw the corridors and walkways visitors can travel along. The route line snaps to this network, so anywhere you want people to be able to walk needs a path.
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Mark stairs and step barriers (optional)
If you want a step-free option, mark stairs in your artwork using the break colour you'll set below — either a segment of a path drawn in that colour, or a separate line crossing a path. Step-free routing avoids these; normal routing uses them.
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Make landmarks into destinations
On the Landmarks tab, open a landmark and set its Action to Wayfinding. Any landmark with this action becomes a place visitors can get directions to.
Turn wayfinding on
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Open your map in the editor
Go to map.au, sign in, and open the map you want to edit.
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Go to the Wayfinding tab
In the editor's tab strip, choose Wayfinding.
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Enable wayfinding on this map
Tick Enable wayfinding on this map. This turns on turn-by-turn directions using the path network in your level images.
No path network drawn yet? The toggle turns on, but no route will draw until your level SVGs contain walkable paths.
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Add a step-free option (optional)
Tick Enable step-free (accessibility) to add a wheelchair / step-free toggle to directions that routes around anything marked with your break colour.
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Set a fixed start (optional)
Leave Fixed starting location ID blank to let visitors choose their own start, or enter a landmark ID to always begin routes from one fixed point (for example a main entrance).
Style the route line
These settings control how the drawn line looks and animates. Sensible defaults apply if you leave them blank.
| Setting | What it does |
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| Line colour | Colour of the normal route line drawn on the map. |
| Accessible line colour | Colour used when step-free mode is on — make it clearly different from the normal line. Needs step-free enabled. |
| Non-accessible (break) colour | The colour you use in your artwork to mark stairs / step barriers. Leave unset if your map has no stairs. |
| Smoothing | How much the line is smoothed around corners (default 5). |
| Animation speed | How fast the line draws in (default 1). |
| Line width | Thickness of the route line (default 2). |
Walk time & distance
The estimate shown on directions (Est. N min · N m) is worked out as distance = path length × scale, then time = distance ÷ walking speed. You control the scale and the speeds.
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Auto-calculate scale from GPS (recommended)
Leave Auto-calculate scale from GPS ticked. When every level has all four GPS corners set (on the GPS tab), Mapvera measures real-world distances directly from those coordinates — per level, and far more accurate than a typed scale.
The status line under this toggle tells you whether GPS is being used yet, or whether it's falling back to the manual scale because a level is missing its corners.
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Or set a manual scale
If you'd rather not use GPS, untick the auto option and enter Scale — metres per map unit: the real-world metres each map pixel represents. For example, a 2000px-wide map of a 600m-wide site is roughly
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Set walking speeds
Walking speed is the average pace for the estimate —
1.3m/s (about 4.7 km/h) is a typical adult. Accessible speed is the slower pace used when step-free mode is on, e.g.0.8m/s.