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We are taking the various feedback items under consideration as there is a lot of great feedback here. However, I wanted to point out a few items that are already in the product.
#3: Topology widgets have no way to not be in 'GEO' mode which needs a tileserver - an error persists on the screen even when no Tileserver is supposed to exist.
We made some improvements for the topology widget in 7.0. If a report creator does not configure the map to use lat/lng it will remove any option to view 'GEO' mode from the user. This forces the widget to only ever be in canvas mode which seems to be your intention.
#8: If possible, map background should be drawn by the client browser - this would prevent the DI servers from needing to access the internet.
This is how the tile server works today. Although the configuration is saved as part of a report to the DI servers, when rendering the map, the client browser is making the request to the tile server. DI servers do not make any requests for the tile server information.
#11: No support for metrics on map for anything other than alerts
This is also supported today. For any node or link in a map that is selected you can add metrics to that selected item. (See first screenshot.) This allows a map creator to add any metric that the NMS has collected about a device or object on a map to the map to be viewed by users looking at a map. (See second screenshot.) I would look at the DI user guide for more information. But this is a big feature we don't want you to miss.
In 7.0 we invested heavily into improving the topology widget with some of these features. And we will be continuing to invest into map functionality so thank you for all your wonderful feedback.