Atlascope Tours: Highlight feature on map

[itspangler]

The problem

When reading an Atlascope tour, it can be difficult to figure out exactly what on the map a caption refers to, and sometimes, why I'm looking at the map in front of me at all. In some cases, I am sure that is simply an issue in how the caption has been written, but in others I think it would be really helpful to have some kind of functionality to highlight a feature on the map.

Regardless of whether this is a feasible thing to implement, we should probably reckon with this feedback, which I have found to be pretty consistent among tour makers and readers.

Possible solutions

I think a solution to this would require adding an optional "points of interest" or poi key to the stops object of the tour metadata. This poi key would require a value of a WKT or GeoJSON compliant Point or Polygon object. After implementing this, maybe we could then add a WKT or GeoJSON maker – something like Placemark or wktmap – in the Atlascope Tour Generator, and ultimately display the points or polygons within tours on their parent stops. I don't think the features should be clickable. We could have a conversation about design/CSS if this is something we move forward on.

Lastly, I wonder: could the annotations functionality that Atlascope already contains be leveraged for this purpose?