Free icons for Google Maps or Google Earth
Map Icons Collection is a set of more than 700 free icons to use as placemarks for your POI (Point of Interests) locations on your maps. You can use them on Google Maps with the “My maps / my places” feature or automatically by using the Google Maps API.
Categories
Organized into logical color coded categories, for better and quicker overview, you get a complete and diverse collection of unique markers for point of interests, for example cinemas, hotels, banks, restaurants and stores.
History
The project was created in March 2009 by Nicolas Mollet, soon to be joined by Matthias Stasiak and Thierry Milherou and is by no means affiliated with Google.
Initially, the project was hosted on Google Code with the name “Google maps icons” : http://code.google.com/p/google-maps-icons/
Donations
Free time is used by all contributors to create and share icons for the Maps community. If you feel this project is useful to you and want to support it and it’s future development please consider donating money. We only ask for a small donation, but of course we appreciate any amount.
Great icons, just waht i was looking for and your website is very easy to navigate. I am definately going to be dontating! Great job!
Cute project. thank you very much for your collaboration
Be good if you had a section spelling out how to use the icons in google, but thanks all the same!
Well, there is a FAQ section actually.
Cute project. thank you very much for your
Any limitations on using the icons with Bing Maps or other GIS maps?
No limitation as far as I know.
The license is the only thing you need to respect.
This is a great project. and it would be even better if there was a correlation between the Icons File Names and Google-Places-API Business-Types (Categories): http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/pl…
Hello Jack,
This is a good idea, I already checked the list of place types from Places.
At the moment, not all types are in my collection (like roofing_contractor, travel_agency, accounting, lawyer…)
When completed, I will change filenames according to the places types, sure.
Hello,
thanks for this great project. Can I use this icons only for diverse maps? Or can I use this also for simple webdesign?
You can use the icons for whatever you want, as soon as your respect the license : credit the project.
This is an incredibly useful resource. I have a map that I need to create pins that have "AA, BB, CC.." etc.. on. Do you think you could share the master PSD for the letter's set or provide the font style so that custom pins can also be generated?
Actually, letters & numbers are generated dinamicly with PHP and GD. No master PSD involved.
I am not sure I will add more letters (AA, AB, AC…) in the future as it consumes a lot of server ressources.
I suggest you to take the blank icon (http://mapicons.nicolasmollet.com/wp-content/uploads/mapicons/shape-default/color-666666/shapecolor-color/shadow-1/border-dark/symbolstyle-white/symbolshadowstyle-dark/gradient-no/symbol_blank.png) and add letters by yourself, fow now.
Really good website for mapping APIs. I was looking for same kind of icons. Very Useful. Thank you very much.
vraiment chouette tes icones..
Great icons! Do you know of any public CDN's that host the icons? If not, perhaps this is something that can be done in the future.. e.g. analogous to how Jquery libraries are hosted by Google
A CDN would be a good idea but the customization makes it hard to host an almost infinite numbers of icons. 255*255*255 colors * 7 styles = over 100 million versions of an icon
I savor, cause I found just what I was looking for. You’ve ended my 4 day lengthy hunt! God Bless you man. Have a nice day. Bye
Awesome resource of good looking icons. thx man
Great set of icons guys! Is there a way to get only the icons in a raw form, so that I can generate pins with different styles and colors. I tried generating the simple style icons in white but I get white shadows sometimes.
At the moment, there is only the simple style that has a little white border.
I don't share the source files sorry.
Hello,
First of all great icons, thanks a lot !
Do you know if there is a way to get shadows under the marker ?
Thanks one more time
Hello!
The shadow is available in the FAQ page: http://mapicons.nicolasmollet.com/faq/
Cheers