Kiosk Placement Planner: where should your kiosks go?
Pick your place and what you want your kiosks to do. You'll get a recommended kiosk count with every spot pinned on a map, each one at a real landmark your team can find.
Rough is fine. Used only to keep the kiosk count realistic.
Radius 1.2 km (0.7 mi)
Your kiosk map appears here
Find your downtown, district or visitor area to see where kiosks would reach the most people, and how many you need.
How the Kiosk Placement Planner works
No guesswork and no black box. The planner works from real mapped places and a few simple rules, listed here.
Real places
Every plan starts from mapped places near you: visitor centers, attractions, venues, campus buildings, transit stops, parks, hotels and more, from Overture Maps open data for the US and Canada.
Your goals
Each goal lifts the places that matter to it. Wayfinding leans toward stations, parking and venues. Engagement leans toward parks and attractions. Advertising leans toward busy shops and restaurants.
A short walk
A kiosk serves the places around it, and places within about a three-minute walk count most. Each new kiosk goes where it reaches the most that the others don't already cover.
Spots you can point to
Each pin moves to the best-known landmark nearby, so your plan names a place, not a coordinate. The planner stops adding kiosks once the next one would add too little.
Kiosk placement, answered
How does the planner choose kiosk locations?
It scores every mapped place in your area by how much it matters to your kind of organization and your goals. Then it picks spots one at a time, each where it reaches the most value the earlier picks don't cover, with places a short walk away counting most. Finally each pin moves to the nearest recognizable landmark, like a visitor center, a station or a main hall.
How many kiosks do I need?
The planner keeps adding kiosks while each one still reaches a meaningful share of what the first one does, and stops when the next would add little. Your size (annual visitors, enrollment or residents) sets the upper limit. Leave it blank and we use a typical size for your kind of organization. You can slide the count up or down and watch the coverage change.
Where does the place data come from?
From Overture Maps, an open map dataset backed by Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and TomTom, covering millions of places across the US and Canada. Pins are always real places from that data, never invented.
Is this a final site plan?
No, it's a strong starting point. Power, network, permissions, accessibility clearance and the exact spot inside a building all shape the final placement. Our team walks through those with you, using your plan as the map.
What do I get when I unlock my plan?
The reasons behind every pin (what each spot reaches and why it made the list) and a link to your plan you can share with your team or board.
How much does a kiosk cost?
The complete HootBoard AirX runs $299 per month with hardware, software and support included, about $3,600 per kiosk per year. Many organizations fund kiosks through grants.
Ready for the next step? Find the funding in the free Kiosk Grant Finder, see what it saves with the ROI Calculator, or schedule a demo and we'll plan it with you.