Smart Scanner

[TawreosZ]

Once you have discovered a planetary trait the scanner would know what that looks like on that particular planet and mark other instances of it accordingly. This would save running across the map from unknown to unknown only to discover they are all the same thing.

[HeyYou]

If you 'scan' the POI symbol with your scanner up, it will tell you 'vaguely' what it is, and there are different symbols for different 'naturals'.... If it is the same symbol, it's likely the same type of location.