Point of Interest Features

With Point of Interest (POI) searching, you can enter a specific name (such as a hotel name), a category (such as Restaurant), or subcategory (such as Thai Restaurant).

Note: POI and category/subcategory features are available only if you have licensed and installed POI data.

The entry format is either of the following:

<brand name, category, or subcategory> <optional area>

<optional area> <brand name, category, or subcategory>

where:

<brand name, category, or subcategory> is a point of interest, such as the name of a specific bank, restaurant, or hospital, or a category (such as parking lot, or petrol station), or subcategory (such as Thai Restaurant).

<optional area> can be a street name, city, state/province, postcode or any combination of searchable address fields. This area information is optional, but if provided, it will limit the candidates to the specified area.

As you type more specific information, the results are refined to display more relevant candidates. Candidates include the full address, POI category and subcategory, and indicate the distance from the origin. See Returned Candidate Fields for a list of additional fields returned with POIs.

Instead of providing an area for POI search, you can constrain results by the search extent from the origin or by a bounding box.

For examples that illustrate POI , see Typical Application Examples.