Why We Introduced Custom Marker Styles - And How to Use Them

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  By Tejas Support

  13 December, 2025

When you work with many locations every day, clarity matters more than anything else. Whether you're a field officer, a technician, a delivery partner, a sales representative or a small business owner, the map is the centre of your work. If the map is confusing, the entire day becomes difficult.

This is exactly why TejasView introduced Custom Marker Styles - a feature designed to make your map cleaner, smarter and visually organised. Instead of having every location look the same, users can now choose unique icons and colours for each category. Over time, these visual markers make your map feel personalised and effortless to navigate.

In this blog, we explain why we created this feature, what problems it solves, and how you can use it in your daily work.

1. Why We Introduced Custom Marker Styles

1.1 Real-life field confusion needed a real solution

Most location apps use a single marker style. While this works for casual use, it becomes a problem when users deal with:

• Dozens of saved addresses
• Multiple clients
• Daily field visits
• Long-term projects
• Team-based operations
• Work that requires audits or verification

Many of our early users told us the same thing:
“All locations look the same, and it becomes confusing.”

When you can’t visually separate:

• urgent sites from normal ones
• personal places from work-related points
• today’s visits from future visits
• completed tasks from pending tasks

… the map turns into a blur of identical pins.

Custom Marker Styles were created to fix exactly this.

1.2 Users wanted a way to structure work their own way

Everyone works differently.

A real estate agent might group sites by project.
A technician might group by service type.
An inspector might group by priority.
A delivery team might group by pickup and drop.

One fixed marker style doesn’t match the variety of workflows people follow.

So we created a system where each category controls its own appearance, letting users build a map that reflects their actual work style.

1.3 Better visibility means faster decisions

Instead of opening every location to know what it is, Custom Marker Styles let you recognise things instantly.

With just one glance, you can tell:

• red = urgent
• blue = work
• green = completed
• yellow = pending
• special icon = high-priority site

This reduces time wasted on reading labels and improves on-ground efficiency.

1.4 Field teams needed a simple, visual hierarchy

When teams work outdoors or travel across different areas, clarity becomes crucial.
A clear visual map helps teams:

• plan their route
• reduce backtracking
• avoid missing important locations
• maintain consistency
• coordinate better with others

Custom Marker Styles were introduced to bring this visual hierarchy to everyone.

2. How Custom Marker Styles Work in TejasView

2.1 It starts with Location Categories

Every marker style is connected to a Category.

A Category decides:

• The Icon
• The Colour

When you add a new location under a category, it automatically picks up that style.
So you don’t have to adjust anything manually - the category does the organising for you.

Examples of categories:

• Pending Visits (yellow color pin icon)
• Completed Work (green checkmark icon)
• High Priority (red alert icon)
• Personal (soft blue icon)
• Delivery Drops (orange box icon)

This keeps your map visually structured from the start.

2.2 You can create new categories anytime

Users can create a category:

• at the beginning
• during a field visit
• while adding a new location
• after noticing the map needs better separation

Each category can be customised with:

• an icon (tool, home, star, flag, alert, pin, box, etc.)
• a colour that fits the category
• a border color that makes it stand out

This gives you complete freedom to set up a perfect system.

2.3 Locations inherit styles automatically

Once a category is set, every location added under it:

• gets the same marker icon
• gets the same colour
• gets the same border
• stays visually grouped with similar locations

This ensures consistency across your map.

Even if you have 300+ saved points, the map still looks organised.

2.4 Updating a category updates all its locations

If you ever feel like changing the colour or icon of a category, you can do it anytime.

When you update the category:

• all locations under that category get updated instantly
• the map rearranges visually
• the new look applies everywhere

This means you can refine your system anytime without manual work.

3. Practical Ways to Use Custom Marker Styles

Here’s how people in different fields use Custom Marker Styles:

3.1 For Field Officers & Inspectors

Categories like:

• “Today’s Inspections” – Blue Marker
• “Pending Reports” – Yellow Marker
• “Critical Sites” – Red Marker with alert icon

This helps officers avoid confusion while moving across multiple locations.

3.2 For Technicians & Service Teams

Technicians often create:

• “Repairs Today”
• “Service Calls”
• “AMC Clients”
• “Repeat Visit Needed”

Each with its own colour and icon.
This helps plan travel and reduce unnecessary back-and-forth.

3.3 For Delivery & Logistics

Delivery users create styles like:

• Pickup Points – one icon
• Drops – another icon
• Priority Deliveries – bold marker
• Returns – a different colour

This makes the map feel like a clear route plan.

3.4 For Sales Teams

Sales staff often create groups for:

• Hot Leads
• Cold Leads
• Meetings for Today
• Follow-up Clients
• Closed Deals

All visually distinct - allowing faster planning.

3.5 For Real Estate & Construction

Teams use markers to track:

• active projects
• upcoming sites
• client visit locations
• material suppliers
• land plots

One glance tells them the entire project landscape.

4. Small Improvements That Make a Big Difference

4.1 Less cognitive load

When every point looks different, the brain understands the map much faster.

4.2 No more opening each location

The marker tells you what category it belongs to.

4.3 Makes teamwork smoother

Everyone sees the same colour-coded system.

4.4 Better long-term organisation

Even if you add hundreds of points, the layout stays neat.

5. How to Set Up Custom Marker Styles - Step by Step

1. Go to Categories
2. Tap Add New Category
3. Choose:
   • A Name
   • An Icon
   • A Colour
4. Save
5. Start adding locations under it

That’s it - every location gets the same style automatically.

Conclusion

Custom Marker Styles were introduced to solve a simple but serious problem: confusing and unorganised maps. By giving users full control over icons and colours, TejasView helps people understand their map instantly without tapping through multiple locations.

From technicians to inspectors, delivery teams to real estate professionals - everyone benefits from a clean, visual map system.

A better-organised map leads to smoother work, fewer mistakes and a calmer, more productive day.