0Extra Google Maps Icons

I fre­quently use google maps, and have cre­ated quite a few cus­tom maps.  I par­tic­u­larly like using the place­mark icons with the stand­ard col­ours, rather than the cus­tom shape icons.  How­ever, there are only 2 types, in 7 col­ours, for a total of 14, which is fre­quently insufficient.

Custom Extra Google Maps Icons

Google Maps sup­ports cus­tom icons, so I have cre­ated a whole series of addi­tion­al icons by using 4 new col­ours, and sev­er­al dif­fer­ent shapes, rather than just dots, in the centre.  In total I have cre­ated 44 extra icons, for a new total of 58, which I hope will be suf­fi­cient.  Update: I have cre­ated a second release of icons, with 114 extra icons, mean­ing there are now 128 place­mark icons avail­able in total includ­ing the ori­gin­al 14.  They can be down­loaded from the down­loads page.  If you would rather down­load them indi­vidu­ally (or link to them dir­ectly from google maps) you can do so — they are all avail­able on my picasa page.  If you want to use the icons on a web­site, I recom­mend down­load­ing the image below, which includes png alpha trans­par­ency, and using css sprites to dis­play the images

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Getting the original Google Maps Icons

The ori­gin­al google icons num­ber 183 in total at present.  They are all PNG’s loc­ated at http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/filename.png

At the bot­tom of this post is a com­plete list of all the file names.

Rather than down­load­ing each in turn, I copied the list into a text file, and added some code (as below) at the start and end of each line I used tex­t­pad and did a replace oper­a­tion, using reg­u­lar expres­sions to replace “/n” (new line) with the following

“>icon</a><br>/n<a href=“http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/micons/

I then com­pleted the top and bot­tom lines, which left me with a val­id html file with a list of links to every file.

I then saved the file as .html, opened it with fire­fox, and used the Fire­fox Addon Down­Them­All to down­load all of them in one go.

I have provided an archive with all 183 icons on the down­loads page, but am aware I may be in viol­a­tion of copy­right, hence provid­ing the inform­a­tion above as an altern­at­ive for any­one who wishes to source the ori­gin­al icons them­selves, or incase I am forced to remove the archive

Filename list for original google maps icons

cour­tesy of google employ­ee “pamela”…

POI.png
POI.shadow.png
arts.png
arts.shadow.png
bar.png
bar.shadow.png
blue-dot.png
blue-pushpin.png
blue.png
bus.png
bus.shadow.png
cabs.png
cabs.shadow.png
camera.png
camera.shadow.png
campfire.png
campfire.shadow.png
campground.png
campground.shadow.png
caution.png
caution.shadow.png
coffeehouse.png
coffeehouse.shadow.png
convienancestore.png
convienancestore.shadow.png
cycling.png
cycling.shadow.png
dollar.png
dollar.shadow.png
drinking_water.png
drinking_water.shadow.png
earthquake.png
earthquake.shadow.png
electronics.png
electronics.shadow.png
euro.png
euro.shadow.png
fallingrocks.png
fallingrocks.shadow.png
ferry.png
ferry.shadow.png
firedept.png
firedept.shadow.png
fishing.png
fishing.shadow.png
flag.png
flag.shadow.png
gas.png
gas.shadow.png
golfer.png
golfer.shadow.png
green-dot.png
green.png
grn-pushpin.png
grocerystore.png
grocerystore.shadow.png
groecerystore.png
groecerystore.shadow.png
helicopter.png
helicopter.shadow.png
hiker.png
hiker.shadow.png
homegardenbusiness.png
homegardenbusiness.shadow.png
horsebackriding.png
horsebackriding.shadow.png
hospitals.png
hospitals.shadow.png
hotsprings.png
hotsprings.shadow.png
info.png
info.shadow.png
info_circle.png
info_circle.shadow.png
landmarks-jp.png
landmarks-jp.shadow.png
lightblue.png
lodging.png
lodging.shadow.png
ltblu-pushpin.png
ltblue-dot.png
man.png
man.shadow.png
marina.png
marina.shadow.png
mechanic.png
mechanic.shadow.png
motorcycling.png
motorcycling.shadow.png
movies.png
movies.shadow.png
msmarker.shadow.png
orange-dot.png
orange.png
parkinglot.png
parkinglot.shadow.png
partly_cloudy.png
partly_cloudy.shadow.png
pharmacy-us.png
pharmacy-us.shadow.png
phone.png
phone.shadow.png
picnic.png
picnic.shadow.png
pink-dot.png
pink-pushpin.png
pink.png
plane.png
plane.shadow.png
police.png
police.shadow.png
postoffice-jp.png
postoffice-jp.shadow.png
postoffice-us.png
postoffice-us.shadow.png
purple-dot.png
purple-pushpin.png
purple.png
pushpin_shadow.png
question.png
question.shadow.png
rail.png
rail.shadow.png
rainy.png
rainy.shadow.png
rangerstation.png
rangerstation.shadow.png
realestate.png
realestate.shadow.png
recycle.png
recycle.shadow.png
red-dot.png
red-pushpin.png
red.png
restaurant.png
restaurant.shadow.png
sailing.png
sailing.shadow.png
salon.png
salon.shadow.png
shopping.png
shopping.shadow.png
ski.png
ski.shadow.png
snack_bar.png
snack_bar.shadow.png
snowflake_simple.png
snowflake_simple.shadow.png
sportvenue.png
sportvenue.shadow.png
subway.png
subway.shadow.png
sunny.png
sunny.shadow.png
swimming.png
swimming.shadow.png
toilets.png
toilets.shadow.png
trail.png
trail.shadow.png
tram.png
tram.shadow.png
tree.png
tree.shadow.png
truck.png
truck.shadow.png
volcano.png
volcano.shadow.png
water.png
water.shadow.png
waterfalls.png
waterfalls.shadow.png
webcam.png
webcam.shadow.png
wheel_chair_accessible.png
wheel_chair_accessible.shadow.png
woman.png
woman.shadow.png
yellow-dot.png
yellow.png
yen.png
yen.shadow.png
ylw-pushpin.png

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