OpenFLAME: A Federated Spatial Naming Infrastructure
Sagar Bharadwaj, Ziyong Ma, Ivan Liang, Michael Farb, Anthony Rowe, Srinivasan Seshan

TL;DR
OpenFLAME introduces a federated spatial naming infrastructure that enables independent management of physical maps, supporting scalable, private, and detailed indoor and outdoor spatial applications like augmented reality.
Contribution
It presents a novel federated mapping system built on DNS, allowing decentralized map management and enhanced privacy for spatial applications.
Findings
Supports indoor and outdoor spatial data integration
Enables scalable and private map management
Implements address mapping, routing, and localization
Abstract
Spatial applications, i.e., applications that tie digital information with the physical world, have improved many of our daily activities, such as navigation and ride-sharing. This class of applications also holds significant promise of enabling new industries such as augmented reality and robotics. The development of these applications is enabled by a system that can resolve real-world locations to names, or a spatial naming system. Today, mapping platforms provided by organizations like Google and Apple serve as spatial naming systems. These maps are centralized and primarily cover outdoor spaces. We envision that future spatial applications, such as persistent world-scale augmented reality, would require detailed and precise spatial data across indoor and outdoor spaces. The scale of cartography efforts required to survey indoor spaces and their privacy needs inhibit existing…
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TopicsService-Oriented Architecture and Web Services · Geographic Information Systems Studies
