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Monday, December 24, 2012

Copying Custom map icons

This is a quckstart guide to create Custom icons for Google maps. The Google Custom Icon site is mapiconsNicolasMollet.com.  The icons can be modified for any color, and then downloaded to the google drive as a ZIP file.  These individual icons are small (37x37) .png files.  Files larger than 64x64 are resized by Google Maps.
  1.  In our shared Google Drive there is a folder called ImagesEtc
  2. goto the ImagesEtc folder and select an icon to view as a .png file
  3. <cntrl>Click the object and select - View Selection Source (make sure that the popup is small and only has 4 items.  If not then double click alongside the png until it highlights light yellow.  <cntrl>click again)
  4. This an example of the source code you need to copy&Paste - <img class="texmex-thumb" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/wHgJlPqWeRsOtmQ5jKcBe02O2hY1u2FlJrmo8SHESEZlHEkDg1hu6bmZckfOt4dVh_TFarGiTh8">
  5. Goto the placemark you want and edit it
  6. Click on the icon image and select - Add an Icon 
  7. Paste the new icon's URL, the string starting with https:// 
  8. Save the icon