Placing hosts on geographical map by lat/long

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I would like to use custom host attributes to specify latitude and longitude, and have the hosts placed automatically on a worldmap. Is this possible and how?

I have tried setting up custom attributes _LAT and _LONG plus source_type=backend as suggested in Werk #14077: NagVis Geomaps: Deprecate wato_geo_fields.py in favor of regular custom host attributes. This works fine on geomap - but I would like to have a worldmap.

I am currently testing on Checkmk raw 2.3.0p7 but I am happy to move to any edition and any version.

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Hi @arvid,

as far as I know, it’s not possible with a “world map”.
Here is a tutorial to do it currently with the geomap:
https://checkmk.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/KB/pages/9473983/How-to+use+geo+coordinates+from+Checkmk+in+NagVis+maps

If you really think this is a much-needed feature, you should use the idea’s portal to give Checkmk’s product management team the idea and the demand for a feature like this.

https://ideas.checkmk.com/

Hope this helps.

Best Regards
Norm

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Norm,

Thanks for the quick reply. You confirm what I expected and I have raised a suggestion for added feature as you suggested.

If anyone knows a way then please reply.

If you feel this would be a useful feature please vote - I will post a link as soon as a moderator has approved the suggestion.

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If you think this would be a useful feature please upvote here.

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