Cloud-based maps styling now has a refreshed map style available for web and mobile. This update to map styling includes a new default color palette, modernized pins, and improvements to map experiences and usability. For more information, see New map style for Google Maps Platform. To start using the new map colors with cloud-based maps styling, see Update a map style to the latest version.
Landmarks and prominent places can have their own icons. You can choose from two
different icon types to represent these types of places:
Standard POI icons are similar in appearance to other map place markers;
Illustrated POI icons feature a more distinctive appearance.
To change the landmark icon style, perform the following steps:
Zoom in on the map enough to see landmarks shown. For example, zoom in to
Paris with a zoom level of 13.
In Map features, select the gear icon
to open the Settings pane.
Select the Standard landmark style to display standard POI icons:
Select the Illustrated landmark style to display distinctive POI
icons:
Open the Landmark element pane by using the filter or the map inspector.
For more information, see Find map features.
In the Landmark element pane, you can customize the visibility, icon
color, text fill color, and text stroke color.
to open the Settings pane.
