Open your venue to the world with multilingual wayfinding
Situm’s Internationalization Features for Global Visitors
Situm’s indoor positioning and navigation platform is designed to welcome everyone—no matter what language they speak. With native support for over 20 languages and full right-to-left (RTL) compatibility, Situm allows you to deliver a seamless wayfinding experience across your apps, websites, and kiosks, regardless of your visitors’ location or cultural background.
Whether you’re operating an airport, shopping mall, hospital, or university campus, Situm helps you remove language barriers and offer a truly global user experience.
Key Features
Situm’s internationalization tools are fully integrated into its SDKs and Viewer, so your digital maps and wayfinding interface can speak your users’ language from day one.
Ready-to-Use Smart Sharing Toolkit
Multilingual by default. Situm offers out-of-the-box support to localize your user interface and map content effortlessly.
- 20+ languages supported: Including English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Chinese, and more.
- Automatic UI translation: Display all wayfinding and map interface elements in the selected language.
- Right-to-left layout support: Full compatibility with RTL languages like Arabic and Hebrew.
- POI content localization: Translate point of interest names, descriptions, and media.
- Category and subcategory filtering in multiple languages: Users can explore maps using localized filters.
- Multilingual search: Search results adapt to user input in any supported language.
- Language fallback system: Ensures content is shown even if not available in the selected language.
Turn-by-Turn Indications in Any Language
Situm enables clear and understandable navigation guidance for everyone, regardless of language.
- Live tracking: See your location and route on the map as you move.
- Spoken guidance in the user’s language: Turn-by-turn voice instructions in the chosen locale.
- Localized visual cues: Arrows and labels are shown in the correct language and direction.
- Automatic re-routing: All updates and reroutes are presented in the selected language.
- Multi-script support: From Latin and Cyrillic to Arabic and Chinese characters.
Localized POI Search & Filtering
Let users find what they need in the language they understand.
- Voice search: Spoken input accepted in multiple languages.
- Fuzzy matching: Tolerant of typos, accents, and partial inputs in any script.
- Localized categories: POIs grouped and filtered using translated names.
- Search indexing by language: Ensures accurate results regardless of the user’s input language.
Right-to-Left Language Support
Designed with global inclusion in mind, Situm fully adapts its UI layout and navigation for RTL languages.
- Bidirectional layout engine: Automatically adapts text direction and UI alignment.
- RTL voice instructions: Spoken guidance flows naturally in the user’s language.
- RTL map orientation options: Customize map behavior for native RTL interaction.
“What’s Nearby?” in Your Language
Contextual awareness with global understanding.
- Proximity alerts in local language: Users receive spoken and visual info like “The pharmacy is 20 meters ahead.”
- Localized geofenced messages: Messages can be read aloud in the user’s preferred language upon entering specific zones.
- Floor and POI descriptions: Automatically shown and read in the selected language.
Seamless Integration
All internationalization features are built into Situm’s SDKs, APIs, and CMS.
- Mobile SDKs: Android, iOS, Flutter, React Native, Cordova, Capacitor.
- Web SDK & Viewer: Easy localization of web-based maps and kiosks.
- CMS-based translation management: Upload and manage translations directly.
- No extra development: Just configure and go multilingual.
Internationalization Benefits
Bring your venue closer to every visitor—no matter where they come from.
- Enhanced visitor experience: Personalized and understandable navigation.
- Inclusive communication: Breaks language barriers for global audiences.
- Faster adoption: Works out of the box with minimal localization effort.
- Compliance support: Aligns with international accessibility and usability standards.
Internationalization FAQs
Yes, Situm supports over 20 languages across its interfaces.
Yes! Contact us and we will adapt Situm Platform to support your preferred languages.
Yes, POIs, categories, and voice search are multilingual by design.
Yes, Situm is fully compatible with RTL layouts, including Arabic and Hebrew.
Yes, you can localize names, descriptions, and more through the Situm CMS.
Yes, spoken and visual turn-by-turn navigation is available in the selected language.
All translations can be uploaded and managed directly via Situm’s CMS or APIs.