GPS history block - show label next to pin

Hi Losant team,

I’m currently using the GPS History block to display the last known locations of our devices. It works great, but there’s one usability issue we’ve run into:

When trying to locate a specific device on the map, we have to click each pin individually to reveal its name. This can be a bit tedious, especially when multiple devices are shown close together.

It would be very helpful if there were an option to always display the device name (or another selected attribute) above each pin without requiring a click. This would make identifying devices on the map much faster and improve the overall user experience.

Thanks!

I like the suggestion. I’ll file it as a feature request. Thanks.

You probably know this already but you can do specific pins per device if you use the advanced pin configuration - reading a URL from a device tag or changing the pin color based on some attribute value. That may help your use case some until we have your feature idea implemented.

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Yeah i was thinking about that too, but if you have 100’s of devices you need to create 100’s of pin images with each device name, which is not really a practical solution.

Could you maybe use an image generator service? Something like https://placehold.co/

Using them specifically, your images would be squares instead of pins but you can pass a custom size, text, background color, and text color.