There’s no reason for our Google Maps to look ugly because of the icons Google used to offer. Now have become available a huge number of icons offered by Nico Mollet under the Creative Commons 3.0 license. The cherry on the cake is that they give away everything related to these icons so everybody can develop their own icons based on the original Photoshop files.
The Google Map icons set now includes:
- Grocery
- water sports
- winter
- Administration, Office & Industry
- Culture & Entertainment
- Education & Kids
- Events & Weather
- Friends, Family & Real Estate
- Media
- Miscellaneous
- Restaurants & Hotels
- Sports, Health & Beauty
- Stores
- Tourism & Nature
- Transportation
As far as I see they intend to continue developing icons so the future looks bright for our Google Maps.
2 Responses
Thanks for this great post !
Regards,
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Nico
This is a great resource! Thanks for posting that.
I recently published a much simpler library with just numbers and letters, if anyone is just looking for that:
http://www.littlewebthings.com/2010/03/letters-numbers-map-icons/
Cheers!