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term: marker
category: spatial
status: canonical
authority: maps.elonn.local
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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