Brand · POI · sky leader-line callout · proposal v0.1
Name it in the sky, not on the building.
The pin-housed ring works when a POI sits on open ground — but on a cityscape the dot lands in front of a building, and its label fights the texture behind it: hard to read, visually busy. The fix is the architectural-aerial convention: a small dot pinned to the real location, a thin leader line rising from it, and the name set up in clear sky. Lines meet their labels on a shared rail so the whole set reads as one calm system. Below: the treatment over an aerial (toggle the rail + label direction), then the parameter variations.
01 · Over the aerial
Eight callouts pinned to the cityscape. Each label hangs from the same rail near the top, where it has clean sky behind it; the hairline drops to the exact point below. Hover any one — the label brightens and the line firms (this is the same state the matching map pin triggers via cross-highlight).
02 · Parameters
The knobs the component exposes per marker: label direction, dot style, line length, and the selected state. Shown over a sky gradient at working size.