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[Brandi Wendelberger]

The following is a collection of icons Google makes available for Google Earth and Google Maps.This is a useful cheat sheet showing all the standard icons to use in Google Earth, Google Maps, and other map related applications.All icons are PNG images and include standard symbols for weather, highway, roads, numbers, arrows, etc.The icons below are the official Google icons shown in one place for a handy reference. You can insert the URLs below into Google Earth when editing the icon for a given placemark [see instructions]or use in the KML you create programmically.Click any of the groups below to jump to that particular group of icons:

• -icons/
• Other misc icons
• See notes

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle []).push(); ://maps.google.com/mapfiles/kml/pushpin ://earth.google.com/images/kml-icons/Note: The track icons are treated special in Google Earth. If you specify to use the gx:Track extension as used for GPS-tracks and specify a Styleusing the -icons/track-directional/track-0.png icon (shown above) then the icon is dynamically changed to appropriate icon usingthe computed compass heading from the previous position. The URL can also be used in KML for the track icon style for the same behavior, but in this case the URL itself doesn't resolve if accessed directlyin a web browser and results in a HTTP 404 not found error. ://maps.google.com/mapfiles/kml/pal3 ://maps.google.com/mapfiles/kml/pal5

Other misc iconsNotes:1. The first four groups of icons above (shapes through kml-icons) are the "standard" Google Earth icons. Theseicons are part of Google Earth application and included in the client distribution.Each of these icons have a default HotSpotorientation specified so the client knows where to place the icon with respectto the coordinates on the map. The origin of the coordinate system is in the lowerleft corner of the icon such that x=0, y=0 refers to the lower-left pixel in the icon image.The pushpin icons, for example, have the hotspot defined at the lower-left corner of the icon.
Adding the pushpin icon to a Placemark automatically creates an IconStyle with following settings:iconhotSpot iconStyle defintionNotesHotspot at lower-left of icon at pin tipHotspot at upper-right of icon at arrow-head tipHotspot at bottom-center of iconThe default hotSpot for custom icons in KML is x=0.5, xunits=fraction, y=0.5, yunits=fraction which places the center of a custom iconat the point's location. If the custom icon implies an implicit hotspot such as having an arrow orsome such callout then an explicit hotSpot *must* be defined in the IconStyle otherwise end-usersmay incorrectly assume the actual location relative to the icon is at a different place on the map.2. The pal2 through pal5 icon groups were used by earlier versions of Google Earth and no longer part of the core icons.In fact, if you create a custom icon style with any of the pal image URLs then Google Earth will automatically remap theURL to one of the standard icons such as the following:=>=>

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