mapoi
- Software
- Navigation and mapping
- Tool
A ROS 2 metapackage for managing maps and points of interest (POIs) for Navigation2, covering map switching, POI management, and autonomous navigation from RViz2 or a web UI.
Made by shimz-robotics.
Source on GitHub: github.com/shimz-robotics/mapoi (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit 0f4eade (opens in a new tab).
Licenses
- Code
- MIT (opens in a new tab)
Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (MIT) at commit 0f4eade (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.
- Commercial use
- Yes
What it does
- Switches between multiple maps and integrates with Nav2.
- Defines POIs in YAML and retrieves them through services.
- Navigates to a POI by name, follows routes, and supports pause and resume.
- Fires events when the robot enters or exits a POI's radius.
- Classifies POIs with system tags (waypoint, landmark, pause) and user-defined tags.
- Provides an RViz2 operation panel and POI editor, plus a browser-based Web UI usable from smartphones.
Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit 0f4eade.
Getting started
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Hardware it needs, as the project states it
- ROS 2 Humble (Ubuntu 22.04) or Jazzy (Ubuntu 24.04), or Docker; Nav2 and other dependencies are resolved automatically.
- How to start
- The project's README (opens in a new tab)
Maintenance
- Status
- Active: a commit in the last 90 days
- Newest commit
- 26 Sept 2026 on main
- Latest release
- v0.6.0 (15 Jul 2026)
Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.
Links
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