Similar to how hosts have templates, it would be very valuable to have Map templates that provide a skeleton. This would be useful in many cases. For example, diagramming large, physically complex networks with many VLANs.

Presently, a viewer friendly method of doing this would be to diagram the network, with all of its base components, trunks, etc, and then add the specific VLAN information on top of that diagram. However, using this method, each map is a standalone object. If a change is made to the physical network, that change has to be manually documented in every map - which could number in the hundreds.

Having a template system would allow the physical network to reside on a single map, and for other maps to be built using this template as a base. Objects can be added to the secondary map, and template objects can be disabled on a per map basis, in the same way that items can be added to a host separately from its template.