GoodMaps

GoodMaps Explore is a navigation and wayfinding app that allows people with sight loss and other disabilities to get a picture of the outdoor and indoor layouts of your venue.

An image of an elderly blind man confidently navigating an indoor space. He uses his white cane and the GoodMaps application guide him. He wears a soft yellow dress shirt and slacks.
An image a woman with sight loss using GoodMaps inside a train station. She has red hair and wears a black blazer.

Empower your visitor experience

GoodMaps Explore helps people with sight loss, and all disabilities, navigate safely and efficiently by verbally announcing the location and distance to nearby rooms. The app allows people to pre-plan trips and points out important landmarks such as emergency exits, restrooms, water fountains and more.

Create an accessible space

The GoodMaps mission is to improve the accessibility, safety, and productivity of indoor spaces. Users can easily navigate and understand their surroundings as they move through a city, or indoor venues. Goodmaps Explore provides accessible and accurate end-to-end routing from outdoors to indoor locations (even underground).

A photo of a blind man walking confidently through an open space on a sunny day, with his white cane. He wears an orange polo shirt and is surrounded by trees.
An image of a smiling woman with sight loss. She wears a grey sweater and sunglasses, and confidently sits beside a historical monument. She uses the GoodMaps app to navigate her surroundings.

How it works

Goodmaps Explore uses revolutionary camera-based positioning technology that provides sub-meter accuracy. The key benefits are:

  • No infrastructure: Goodmaps camera-based positioning (CPS) does not require the installation of any hardware or beacons.
  • High level of Accuracy: Goodmaps provides superior accessible indoor mapping and accurate positioning compared with other systems and can provide accuracy as good as a few feet.
  • Simple & Intuitive: Goodmaps Explore empowers a user to navigate easily & effectively, regardless of ability.
  • Accessible end-to-end routing: Goodmaps Explore provides accessible and accurate end-to-end routing from outdoors to indoor locations (even underground).

Why choose CNIB Access Labs?

Provide access with a trusted partner

As Canada’s largest organization of its kind, we are uniquely positioned to provide a wide range of accessibility consulting services. By working with CNIB Access Labs you will be collaborating with a trusted partner with more than a century of experience through CNIB.

Charitable Ethos

CNIB Access Labs is a social enterprise supporting businesses, organizations, and educational institutions to ensure all Canadians with disabilities can benefit from barrier-free communities and workplaces. One hundred percent of our proceeds are reinvested into CNIB to create innovative programs and powerful advocacy that empower people impacted by blindness to live their dreams and tear down barriers to inclusion.

Industry Leading Team

Our consultants bring years of expertise and lived experience. We actively partner with many other pioneering organizations both in Canada and worldwide, including Vision Loss Rehabilitation Canada, the Royal National Institute for the Blind, the American Printing House for the Blind, and Vision Australia.

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Testimonial

“The turn-by-turn navigation GoodMaps provides is truly amazing. It makes me want to explore and get out more. I can’t wait to attend my first concert soon and feel confident I have the right tool to help me.”

– J.M., GoodMaps user