POIs

A POI could be any of the following GeoJSON objects:

• Point.
• Polygon.
• Multipolygon.

Using POIs

Astara Connect allows you to send GeoJSON objects to the platform, so you can query them using an API to filter them by tags and/or distance to them.

Discovering public POIs

Astara Connect offers a set of public POIs that you can explore. For example, all the provinces from Spain are available as public POIs. You can use them to create a geofence alert that notifies you when a tracker leaves a province.

Public POIs are global system records managed by Astara Connect administrators. They have no company owner and are available to all users of the platform.

Check the open API section for more details.

Company POIs

When you upload POIs to Astara Connect for a specific company, they are always private to that company. Company POIs cannot be made public — the public flag is ignored for any POI that belongs to a company. Only system-level POIs (with no company owner) can carry the public=True flag.

When setting up a geofence alert using a public POI, you import it into your company namespace as a private copy. This ensures your alert is not affected if the original public POI is modified or removed.

Check the open API section for more details.

Tagging and saving meta information within POIs

Astara Connect allows you to tag POIs, so you can filter them by tag and add extra information as a JSON object.

The meta-information is critical, as it can be used to store information like fuel prices. This enables you to create dynamic POIs that show real-time information regarding a third-party solution like fuel stations or free parking slots so others can query that information and use it to direct people to those POIs.