Locate an iPhone reliably indoors?

Question

I\'m writing an app for a museum tour. I\'d like my app to know where the user is in the building, if the user is standing in a particular room, in front of a particular work, e

Answer 1

I ran into this problem myself last summer during an internship, because of the research I was helping to conduct I know the only real solution that doesn't involve extra hardware or user involvement is to use the private API and avoid the app store.

This obviously only really works if you have complete control over the hardware being used on the tour (I.E. you provide the iPhone). If you do provide the iPhone then you can deploy the app to it manually. Obviously that isn't an ideal situation but it would work.

As others have mentioned the use of QR-codes is another solution to the problem but requires the user to actively look for the codes to get the information for the tour. For the individual exhibits this would work quite well but it has limitations especially if there isn't a convenient place to put them.