Places

Places are, as the name implies, specific points on the map that have been saved to the user’s account in order to be accessed, referenced, visible, and utilized with other features in the future. Places can be actual places of interest or significance, offices, homes, customer addresses, or even just reported positions that needed to be saved (for example: the exact location, date , and time where an incident occurred, a fishing hole, the exact location of a favorite hiking view, etc).

Once created, Places will be visible on the map view unless the user toggles them off, and whether visible or not, users will be able to use them with other features like Geofences, Alerts, Get Route, Waypoints, Trips, Journeys, Reports, and Shared Views.

Interacting with Places

The majority of ways in which people can interact with Places involve their location characteristics. The Get Route tool allows users to route Assets to the Place, and a number of Reports use the location data of a given Place as a reference or filtering criteria. Whether or not Assets are near a place can filter Reports like Asset Location Reports and Asset Movement Reports.

Ways to Add Places

Places can be created in a number of ways, and each method typically involves use of another feature in the portal.

Add by Address
In the traditional Add Place flow, when it asks for the location of the Place, users can search for any address, and it will populate the Lat/Lng for that location if it can be found. Users can also try searching for names of popular attractions or locations, and in many cases, the portal will be able to convert those names into addresses and coordinates.

Add by Lat/Lng
Users can input the coordinates of the Place they wish to add to the portal, and it will look up the location and save it as a place.

Add by Map
In the traditional Add Place flow, when it asks for the location of the place, users can click on the map, and the portal will populate the Lat/Lng and Address of the specified location.

Add from Position
One of the Quick Actions available to users is the ability to save a reported Position as a Place. Users can do this by opening any position on the map, reported by any asset at any time, and from the Quick Actions (dot menu), select Add as Place.

Add from KML
Please see the Feature article on Importing Places and Geofences for details about importing large batch files of Places from KML.