I'd like to develop an indoor positioning system for iOS by using WiFi signals instead of iBeacon. I read here that the feature was recently introduced. It says:
You can sign up to learn more about how you can work with Apple to enable indoor positioning at your venue. Provide us with some basic information about your venue to get started.
and it leads to Apple Maps Connect, where you provide some information regarding the venue you'd want to enable for indoor positioning. I sent the request some weeks ago and I have no response yet, since they say they have a large amount of requests and they are prioritizing according to several conditions.
However, I'm not sure if this request through Apple Maps Connect is just to get more information from Apple of how to develop an indoor positioning app, or it is because yo need to be granted their explicit permission to do that, or why. Has somebody already completed this process?
On the other hand, the only information dealing with indoor positioning, apart from iBeacon related, is this sample code.
To make sure: the WiFi-enabled indoor positioning is only available starting from iOS 8? Just developing it will be enough, or is it needed to request any kind of specific permission to enable an indoor positioning based app for WiFi signals?
Thanks in advance
