Wayfinding applications are not just maps with “You Are Here” dot anymore. There are many possible functionalities and widgets that our customers prefer to see on their wayfinding applications. 3D Wayfinders HTML-based user interface makes it really easy to add and use such widgets.

As wayfinding kiosks are usually in visible places, visitors would also like to find other kind of information than the building map and directory listing. Large shopping malls are usually accessible via intercity bus or metro stations, so it is important to find the commuting schedules. Also in larger modern shopping malls there are integrated cinemas, which would like to show their programme.

Nowadays people have smartphones, that can show weather forecast and date beside the clock. But still one of the things our customers are asking for quite often is a clock integrated to the wayfinding application.

We have created a NPM package ‘ng.clock’ for the widget, which can be found at https://www.npmjs.com/package/ng.clock and a demo of the clocks can be found here https://codepen.io/tonister/pen/qpyBgQ. This clock widget is made as an AngularJS 1.x Directive. The choice to use AngularJS is due to the fact that almost all our latest templates have been created using AngularJS.

3D Wayfinder user interface is created with HTML, so it is easy to implement any widget or integrate bus or cinema schedules inside wayfinding application user interface, although it might be good to mention that for some of these features the API licenses are not free, or if they are free then they are very limited.

Thanks to HTML5 based layouts it is easy to integrate different kind of widgets, for example exchange rates, events, news, weather forecasts, social media feeds, CAP alerts, time remaining till closing.