Floor-aware maps contain indoor GIS data that is organized into floor-aware layers, with features linked together in a floor plan hierarchy. They allow you to visualize and analyze indoor spatial data for various purposes. For example, you can use a floor-aware map to visualize space use in a large office building to determine where changes to office assignments would improve team proximity, maintain social distancing requirements, and conserve resources.
A floor-aware map contains at least two floor-aware feature layers: one representing facilities (such as office buildings or medical facilities) and one representing levels, or floors, in a facility. Floor-aware maps can also include additional layers, such as a sites layer representing collections of facilities (for example, a college campus) and a units layer representing features such as rooms and hallways.
If your organization is licensed with an ArcGIS Indoors Maps extension, you can configure floor-aware maps in Map Viewer by setting the map's indoor layer properties. After configuring and saving the floor-aware map, you can share it to allow others to view and explore the indoor data using the floor filtering tool in Map Viewer.
Note:
If your organization does not have the ArcGIS Indoors Maps extension license, you can still open and view floor-aware maps in Map Viewer.
To configure floor-aware maps in Map Viewer, do the following:
- Confirm that you are signed in and, if you want to save your changes, that you have privileges to create content.
- Open a map that contains floor-aware feature layers or add the layers directly.
- On the Contents (dark) toolbar, click Map properties
. - In the Indoor layers section of the Map properties pane, turn on the Enable floor filtering toggle button.
- Choose the layers that correspond to the locations in your map.
At minimum, you must specify a polygon feature layer representing facilities and a polygon feature layer representing floors.
- Optionally, do the following to specify additional point, line, or polygon feature layers in your map to include in floor filtering:
- Click Add layers.
- In the Add layers window, choose a layer and click Next.
- Choose the attribute field that contains the floor-level ID for features in the layer and click Add.
- Repeat the above steps to add more layers.
- On the Contents toolbar, click Save and open
and click Save 
to save the floor configuration to the map.