I would love to have an option in one of the side panels to filter out the various POIs. The WS isn't the most aesthetically functional device especially when POIs are layered on top of each other in the scanner. Plus I have a fairly small screen so it's hard to distinguish a few types from each other. This would tremendously help SRV prospecting and allow players to focus on certain materials they are after.
I'd prefer my absent ship be doing something useful: giving me an aerial "satellite" view, letting me find and plot routes to pois.
A scanner drone in the 34th century i think isn't an absurd idea...