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The positioning accuracy degrades in some areas due to a lack of FPs or visitors. To improve the positioning performance, this paper proposes a scalable WiFi FP augmentation method with two major modules: virtual reference point generation (VRPG) and spatial WiFi signal modeling (SWSM). A globally self-adaptive (GS) and a locally self-adaptive (LS) approach are proposed in VRPG to determine the potential unsurveyed RPs. A multivariate Gaussian process regression (MGPR) model is designed to estimate the joint distribution of all WiFi signals and predicts the signals on unsurveyed RPs to generate more FPs. Evaluations are conducted on an open-source crowdsourced WiFi FP dataset based on a multi-floor building. The results show that combining GS and MGPR can improve the positioning accuracy by 5% to 20% from the benchmark, but with halved computation complexity compared to the conventional augmentation approach. 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