Marker

A visual point-of-interest placed at a position in the field. Markers are authored by the maps service and rendered by the web runtime.

Allowed:

• field marker
• place marker
• marker set (a grouped category of markers)

Forbidden:

• pin (generic mapping term; not the internal noun)
• waypoint (connotes navigation; not the model)
• location (a property, not an object)
• poi (acceptable as internal shorthand in code; not a product term)
• landmark (too specific)
• icon (describes rendering, not the object)

Notes:

• Markers belong to a marker_set which groups them by category (e.g. restaurant, transit, park).
• Markers are field objects; they have coordinates but are not carry objects.

Related:

• field
• maps
• anchor