You provide the place and its content
Share your point-of-interest locations, routes, venue identity, and interpretive material, including text, images, audio, or video.
Custom virtual tour apps for real-world venues
Turn your venue into a location-aware virtual tour.
Atlas Engine is SparkAtlas's software system for creating custom virtual tour apps tailored to individual venues. We combine your locations and interpretive content with maps, route guidance, and proximity-triggered delivery, available in a mobile browser or as an installed app.
Designed for
- Parks
- Museums
- Tourism
- Campuses
- Events
01Tailored to your venueYour map, routes, identity, and content.
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SELF-GUIDED EXPERIENCEStanley Park
SPBurrard Inlet123WelcomeNext stop
02Triggered on siteStories appear as visitors approach.
[ WHAT ATLAS ENGINE IS ]
Your place. Your knowledge. One custom visitor app. Built and delivered by SparkAtlas.
Your team knows which locations matter and what visitors should learn there. SparkAtlas turns that knowledge into a branded, location-aware virtual tour that guides visitors across your venue and delivers each piece of content at the place where it has the most meaning.
How Atlas works
From venue knowledge to an on-site virtual guide.
A straightforward collaboration turns your existing locations and interpretive material into a complete visitor experience.
SparkAtlas builds your tour app
We use Atlas Engine to create a virtual tour tailored to your venue, content, visitor goals, and brand.
Visitors open it on their phones
The finished experience can run in a mobile browser with no installation required, or be delivered as an installed mobile app.
The real-world location triggers the content
As visitors physically approach a point of interest, Atlas automatically delivers the text or multimedia connected to that place.
The value for visitors
More than directions. A richer way to experience your site.
Atlas helps visitors feel guided, engaged, and connected to the history and meaning of each place.
Create a more immersive visit
Turn a self-guided walk into a responsive experience that connects the visitor, the digital guide, and the physical site.
Bring site history into its real setting
Help visitors understand the people, events, culture, and meaning behind a place while they are standing there.
Guide visitors through a richer journey
Use routes, progress, and timely content to reveal more of the venue and make every stop easier to discover and understand.
Designed around real venues
One engine. Five distinct visitor contexts.
The same location-aware foundation adapts to different places, audiences, content, and operational goals.
Parks & nature
Help visitors find viewpoints, trails, facilities, ecological features, and lesser-known corners without adding more signs to the landscape.
Museums & galleries
Extend interpretation beyond the label with audio, imagery, video, accessibility options, and self-guided routes for different interests.
Tourism teams
Connect landmarks and local businesses into branded itineraries that spread visits across a district and make exploration feel effortless.
Campuses
Guide prospective students, new arrivals, and guests to important buildings while adding useful context at every stop.
Festivals & events
Turn a temporary footprint into a clear digital experience with stages, vendors, attractions, schedules, and timely visitor guidance.
What visitors experience
A virtual guide that responds to where they are.
Visitors open the tour, follow the route, and receive each story when they physically reach its point of interest. Select a moment to follow this Stanley Park example.
START THE EXPERIENCE
Explore Stanley Park.
- Distance
- 1.8 km
- Stops
- 4 stops
- Style
- Self-guided
LOCATION REACHED · CONTENT UNLOCKED
Brockton Point Totem Poles
STOP 02 / 04
The place triggers the content.
Deliver venue-curated history, cultural context, audio, video, or practical information when the visitor is there to experience it.
ARRIVED · FINAL STOP UNLOCKED
Stanley Park Gift Shop
Connect discovery to an on-site service, shop, café, donation, booking, or special offer.
Illustrative Stanley Park concept · No app installation required
The engine underneath
The software foundation behind every custom tour.
Atlas provides the reusable mapping, geolocation, content delivery, and mobile experience. SparkAtlas configures that foundation around each client venue instead of rebuilding the same technology from scratch for every project.
Tailored to each venue
Combine your brand, map, routes, points of interest, and visitor priorities in an experience built specifically for your site.
↗Content triggered by proximity
Connect each point of interest to an arrival area, then serve the associated experience when a visitor physically approaches it.
↗Text and multimedia storytelling
Present history and interpretive material through text, imagery, audio, video, prompts, and useful links.
↗Browser or installed app
Make the tour available through a visitor's mobile browser, or package it as an installed app when the project calls for one.
↗The origin
Proven through play. Rebuilt for practical places.
Atlas Engine grew out of Gatekeepers, SparkAtlas's location-based outdoor game. Building a real product around waypoints, live movement, encounters, and progression revealed a much broader platform: one that can help any place become a guided interactive experience.
Real-world product foundationMobile-first from day oneBuilt by SparkAtlas in British Columbia
Explore Gatekeepers Start with one route
What could visitors discover at your venue?
Tell us about your venue, the locations you want visitors to explore, and the interpretive content you already have. We'll outline a focused Atlas pilot with one audience, one route, and a tailored virtual tour experience.
Prefer email? Write to info@sparkatlasinteractive.com