Am I right in thinking that there’s only ONE icon included in google maps, and to use anything other than that you have specify a URL for an image, and a URL for a shadow, etc etc?
Basically I’m shocked that all of the icons you can see if you create a “My Maps” map aren’t available in the API. It should be as simple as saying “icon: greenPin”, “icon: parking”, “icon: tent”, surely?
Seems bizarre that they’ve not included such a basic thing given how powerful the rest of the API is – why make us jump through hoops giving specific URLs to images & shadows?
Am I missing something?
At the very least where can I find a list of the official google URLs for these “built in” images, as I’m struggling even with that.
:-S
Yes you are right, google default image is only one and if you want to another image you have to use URL.
http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/mapfiles/ms/micons/blue-dot.png
http://www.google.com/mapfiles/marker” + letter + “.png”
here you can replace the letter with any alphabet.