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Practice

POI Search

Search POI offline, inspect them on the map and use them as targets.

Workflow

Typical Flow

Use these steps to complete the workflow on the map.

  1. Step 1Import POI data or use an existing map
  2. Step 2Choose search term or category
  3. Step 3Check details and distance
  4. Step 4Use POI as target, marker or project reference

Offline search

POI full-text index for large local databases

The visible POI search uses the index created during import and continues to combine it with source, category and map-viewport filters.

FTS5 or FTS4

MapTools uses FTS5 where Android provides it and automatically falls back to the compatible FTS4 index.

Multiple words and prefixes

Several words must match together. Prefixes, synonyms and maintained language variants broaden useful terms.

Robust fallback

If an old or incomplete index has no match, a bounded substring search remains available.

Safe input

Search text is normalized and bounded by word length, word count and synonym count; FTS operators are not accepted as query syntax.

No OGC/WFS remote search

This index searches imported POI databases on the device. Searching remote feature services is a separate feature block that is not included yet.

Detailed guides

Import, index and search POI data

An offline map alone does not provide searchable POIs; a separate POI dataset and completed local index are required.

Start the search

Enter at least three characters or use quick filters, then restrict source, category and reference point such as GPS, marker or map area.

Use results

Inspect name, category, distance and source, show a hit on the map and use it as a marker or target. OGC/WFS and InfoTap remain separate service workflows.