Indicate Points of Interest (POI) on the map

[jpmens]

As a proof of concept, our OwnTracks iOS app is able to submit a Point of Interest (POI) upon manually publishing a location from the UI. The app displays these POI on its map.

This POI is added to the JSON payload (element: poi), and as with all elements therein, surfaced by Recorder in the API:

{
      "_type": "location",
      "lat": 17.065921,
      "lon": -96.717023,
      "poi": "Oaxaca, hotel Los Pilares",
      "t": "u",
      "tid": "jp",
      "tst": 1703040222,
     ...
}

It seems to me a good idea to have these POI indicated in the Frontend as well.

[linusg]

ACK, keeping up with new features provided by the app(s) seems desirable - I'll look into this 👍

[jpmens]

I'm not particularly fond of shape nor colour combinations, but this is how http://umap.openstreetmap.fr places the label on a geoJSON feature:

[ykram]

Glad to see a feature request was raised for this. I have several POIs submitted but wish I could see these on the front end map.

[jpmens]

Until that is implemented there's a bit of a workaround (not using Frontend) as detailed in owntracks/recorder#439

[linusg]

@jpmens how do you like this?

[jpmens]

@linusg that is gorgeous. SHIP IT! ☺️

[linusg]

Shipped :) https://github.com/owntracks/frontend/releases/tag/v2.15.0

[jpmens]

Shipped

I've no excuses left: now I'll just have to write the blog post detailing all that has occurred lately in our OwnTracks project (iOS, Android, Frontend) over the past year or two, for our 11th aniversary on the weekend.