Micello bringing indoor maps to iPhone!

Helping you discovery your means around townspeople has been the iPhone’s forte for days. In fact, any smartphone armed with the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Maps for Mobile application can hold you from having to ask person for directions. But, as high gear-technical school as chromosome mapping services have gotten in the past tense few years, we still rely on hard-written matter maps printed on glossy pamphlets to keep our bearings in convening centers and shopping malls. That’s where Micello comes in. Micello today unveiled their indoor mapping iPhone app at DEMO 09. Once launched, the Micello iPhone app volition allow users to navigate the shoemaker’s last frontier of mapping services – the “indoors.”

“The maps today bring you to the threshold. We proceeds you interior the situation. It’s the shoemaker’s last mile, the unchartered soil. We are construction the introduction for indoor location based services and creating an eco-system similar to what’s occurrence in the outdoor space,” said Ankit Agarwal, Founder and chief executive officer of Micello.

Micello’s mapping database contains flooring-plans for venues like resorts, college campuses and stadiums. So far, there ar only about 150 indoor maps in the San Francisco Bay Area, but will be expanded to over 5,000 indoor maps across the US by 2010. There’s even a social constituent to Micello that allows users to interact with each other or geo-locate friends from their Facebook, Twitter and mobile headphone contacts lists.

But, what impresses us the most is the way Micello builds their maps. Micello constructs indoor maps from simple images of existing maps. The company claims it can render an indoor mapping from an image in about four hours. The indoor mapping can then be matched up to burst interior a larger map, like Google Maps.

Look for Micello’s iPhone app in the coming weeks.

[Via: Ubergizmo]