The document discusses the development of the Met app by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, highlighting features like public domain metadata standards for georeferencing and user feedback on app store reviews. It addresses the pros and cons of the current mapping features and outlines plans for redesign and a digital-first launch in Spring 2016. Additional resources for user feedback and indoor mapping are provided.

1. Building a Map for The
Met app
Spencer Kiser and Subathra Thanabalan
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2. Apps and API

3. The Met App

4. App Store Reviews

5. App Store Reviews

6. Museum Print Map

7. Website Map

8. Met App Map

9. Tech Stack

10. Indoor Mapping

11. World Map Projection
GeoTIFF is a public
domain metadata
standard which
allows
georeferencing
information to be
embedded within a
TIFF file.

12. World Map Projection

13. Upload Tiles

14. (X,Y) to (Lat,Long)

15. Pros
Speed to market
Reusable
Using existing workflows

16. Cons
Not a vector map
Not available offline
Not ready for indoor positioning

17. App Store Reviews

18. Sessions
Map
Search the
Collection
Audio
Guide

19. Session Lengths

20. User Feedback
Font is fuzzy
No offline mode
No positioning / blue dot

21. Next Steps
System redesign
Digital first
Launch Spring 2016 (tentative)

22. Learn More
“Mapping User Feedback on the Met App”
http://bit.ly/1rc9pnW
“Building an indoor map with Mapbox”
http://bit.ly/1RmyB4t
@spenczar
@subzthanabalan