One of my hot buttons...

We've brought this up with Cisco Product Managers over the years, and they 
don't seem to get it.  Perhaps a critical mass on this group could get it 
raised in priority.  We've suggested Geographic Information Systems numerous 
times.  You would not necessarily need GPS reception inside the building.  Just 
geo-reference a few exterior corners of a floor plan, and any GIS system 
projects specific coordinates as you drop an AP.  I had some grad students do 
this with a percentage of our floorplans a decade ago and it all worked.  Then 
you should be able to export those and re-import into any floor plan that is 
geo-referenced.

Related, Cisco' mapping (DNAC and DNASpaces) is pretty two dimensional, and 
doesn't have the concept of a campus with many buildings and many floors to 
those buildings.  

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