Points in Locus Map, often referred to as Points of Interest or abbreviated POIs are georeferenced information packages displayed above the map. In general, they represent items like monuments, theaters, museums, pubs, hotels and also geocaches. In Locus Map there are two main categories of POIs:

• User Points
• LoMaps POIs

The first category of points that are handled in Locus Map is map-independent. These points can be downloaded from many database sources around the World or imported from any folder in your device to Locus Map. They can be created on the spot or photographed. They are managed in the Points tab of the Data manager, can be stored in folders, grouped, sorted, filtered and edited in many ways.

These points are referred to across the application as just “points”.

The other category of points are an integral part of LoMaps. They are a direct output of OpenStreetMap database and carry a lot of information about almost all point objects on the map, beginning with hill peaks, church monuments and other landmarks and ending with civil facilities like post offices, ATMs, gas stations etc. These Points of Interest can not be created, deleted, renamed or otherwise manipulated but you can be guided or navigated to them, you can share them, copy them etc.