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.

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.