How to use Points of Interest

This guide explains how to create, edit, and manage points of interest (POIs).

Installation

1. Enable PointsOfInterests in your application's Privileges and Features.

_EditLocation - Indicates in which location categories a user can edit POIs.
_EditLocationCategory - Indicates which location categories a user can edit. Also indicates that a user can create new categories.
_ExportLocation - Indicates that a user can export POIs.
_ImportLocation - Indicates that a user can import POIs (in VehicleTracker). SiteAdmin does not check this privilege.
_ReadLocationCategory - Indicates which location categories a user can see.

Application setup

1. Enable Points of Interest from the Main Menu> Window > Points of Interest

2. Save your Workspace to preserve your changes.

Usage

How to create a POI

1. You can create a POI right from the map

2. Or from the POI panel by clicking on + POI button.

Note: A POI will appear in the POI panel only when its location is visible on the map. This is because the POI panel is designed to show context-specific information, helping users focus only on the POIs relevant to the area currently in view.

Create POI Group

With Groups, you can organize your POIs into different categories. These Groups can later be used on Event Rules (e.g. to create an alert when a asset is near/far from a POI). Read more about ER here.

1. To add a group, select 'Groups' from the advanced menu.

2. Then click on + Group

3. Under Details, select the options according to your needs

4. Optional. Select the Geocoding settings if you want to use your POIs as a geocoding option (e.g. to display POIs on the reports or as addresses in the GUI when available).

5. Optional - in this part, you can create your own POI Custom fields. Read more about POI custom fields here.

6. Click on Save.

How to edit/remove groups

If you want to remove the POI group, follow these steps:

1. Enter the Advanced POI menu and select Groups

2. When you see the available Groups, you will see the trash/edit icon to the right. 

3. Select the group you want to remove.

Additional features in POI

Export the POIs by group 

• Enter the Advanced POI menu and select Groups. There are the available Groups, and you can see the export icon to the right. 

Create Custom Fields

• Create Custom Fields to add additional fields with your own data.

Import your POIs

• You can import POIs in CSV or KML format. Follow this guide to achieve that.

Get to know the distance of your assets to a POI

• You can use POIs as reverse geocoding to display, for example, the distance from the Asset to a POI.