Change Pin icons

[payt1400]

Is it possible to change google map pin icon if so how?

[realitix]

Hello @payt1400.
Currently, you can't change the icon, only the default icon is used.
This is a feature request.

Can you rename the issue:

[Feature] Allow to customize pin icon in map view

Thanks

[maks]

@realitix I would suggest to use Github labels for marking issues as feature request, bugs, documentation, questions, etc. That then makes it easier to use the filtering functionality here.
Also because labels are something that only owner and contributors of a repo can set, this means it provides the opportunity for them to set a label as part of triaging incoming issues as I've found that works better than having users who open issues try to classify what an issue type is.

[realitix]

@maks Of course I agree, but @gliechtenstein didn't give me the management role yet 😃
Maybe when Jasonette popularity will explode, @gliechtenstein will need dev to help him handle the load!

[maks]

@realitix oh sorry! I didn't realise you didn't have access as I saw you marked as a contributor on the repo.
@gliechtenstein If you want helpers in future I'm also happy to put up my hand to help out.

[jxsp]

Interesting request, I can see how this would be useful. I will look into this coming weekend, I think this is doable. 👍

[maks]

@jasperroest I've just done a PR (#149) for adding action/href for pin markers so you might want to base off of that or wait til its merged into develop.
If we are adding support for custom icons, we might as well also add support for other things that can be easily set via the Marker API:

• color
• opacity
• rotation
• z-index

@gliechtenstein I am assuming that you use Gmaps on iOS for the Map too and that these are all avialable there as well but please say if thats not so.

[jxsp]

@maks Ok that's great. I will wait a bit then, I can do a bit of preparation and research in the meantime, so that I know how to do it. I agree with your suggestion, adding those things as well makes sense.

[gliechtenstein]

@maks on iOS we use Apple map because it's free and comes built-in by default with no API key necessary.

As for the additional attributes I think it's likely that they're doable but I can't say for certain at the moment since I'm not too familiar with customizing mapview on either ios or android. Will have to look into it.

[jxsp]

@gliechtenstein I am not an iOS developer, but perhaps I can look into Apple maps (it would be interesting to see how it compares to other map API's). But first I need to try to install OS X on my PC on Virtualbox, will try this weekend, after completing the this issue.

[gliechtenstein]

@jasperroest that would be awesome!