Do we need a map format?

[willguv]

This is the most popular Highways page on the Cumbria website

https://cumbria.gov.uk/roads-transport/WeatherStations/default.asp

As a citizen I can see road conditions in tricky places at a glance So I can decide to travel or not

We're deciding how to transition this content to LocalGov Drupal. The stopgap solution is to create an iframe (paying attention to accessibility) and inserting this content

We think a better solution is to create a map type format where content designers can add pins to a map. There's no need for search or facets because there's very few pins

This could be a directory without search or facets (a toggle on a directory channel?)

Is this a common need across the councils? What's the best architectural decision here?

[andybroomfield]

• Would it need to be a content type / dedicated page?
• Would a paragraph type / page component be a better fit?
• Would this use Geo entities or the plain geofield?

[ekes]

First guess having just clicked around and not seen the backend:

Another geo bundle (in addition to address and area) - with the field/logic for getting, and displaying, the weather station data. These placed onto a single map with a view if it's one off - a field on a node content type if it's not.