[kml, kmz, gpz] Custom symbols support for imported kmz places.

[vng]

Please, attach small kmz examples with custom icons from different use-cases (apps, services) here.

[biodranik]

Meteorite_Impacts_from_around_the_World.kmz.zip
buffetthawaiitour.kmz.zip

A number of downloadable KMZ tours: https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/ted/de/index/geoz/geodaten_u_plaene/zuerizfuess_touren.html

[utack]

This is what Google My Maps does when you click "export as kmz"
It would be great to have support for those icons, or at least have an importer that uses the average color of the custom png as pin color

Seoul to Busan and Beyond (SBB).kmz.zip

[biodranik]

Locus Maps gpz example.zip

How it works in Locus Maps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2XFjXPuckA

[0709wiwiwi]

In a gpx waypoint the gpx sym text triggers the associated icon to display.
IF no matching icon is available the receiver shows the default icon instead.
In a gpz file additonally transfer the expected icon image to be displayed.

Transfer navigation & images & icons by gpz

Usage of gpz

[biodranik]

Thanks! Can you please paste the gpx code example here directly?

[0709wiwiwi]

A single gpx waypoint example.

• The gpz version.

The attached gpz file contains a gpx file as well a (photo_image) png icon and a linked full size photo jpg image.
BOM_GPZ.gpz.txt

Locus map app accepts the import as zip or gpz file.
The gpx viewer app supports the import as gpz file.

To know both apps by default do already support the most popular Garmin gpx sym icons.
The current gpx viewer by the unsupported gpx sym Bareldonk_kapel does not show the gpz (photo_image) png icon.
Locus map 4.25.1.3 BETA by the sym Bareldonk_kapel autodisplays the (photo_image) png icon by the same gpz import.

Anyway in both apps you can manually promote any linked image as usefull map thumbnail.

• The kmz version.

The attached kmz file contains a klm file as well a (photo_image) png icon and a linked full size photo jpg image.
BOM_KMZ.kmz.txt

[biodranik]

Good! I remember there was a list of known/recognized icons already somewhere, right?

[0709wiwiwi]

The most widely used in gps units are the Garmin sym with associated Icons. Garmin.zip
Source: https://www.javawa.nl/wpsymbols.html & https://www.javawa.nl/downloads/sym/symbolen.gpx
Notice Copyright: Garmin Corporation.
The gpx viewer app does not use the original Garmin icon images.
The associated icon images are probably (re)constructed by:
https://mapicons.mapsmarker.com/author/nico.mollet/

Copyright icons.
Apps only need to support some of the most popular gpx sym with free icon designs.
The app user decides whether or not to transfer any (free) (icon) image into a gpz file.

[ZeljkoBG]

Good! I remember there was a list of known/recognized icons already somewhere, right?

There are millions of free icons on the Internet

[0709wiwiwi]

Transfer and display ANY wpt png map icon by a gpz(zip) file.
A demo using gpz(zip) is now possible in Locus map 4.26
However, you still must compile the gpz file production manually.

• Place ALL the png icons associated with the gpx sym in the gpz root.
  (Both the app own internal png icons as well as each external png icon)
• Compress the gpx file together with the png icons into a gpz(zip) file.
• Locus map 4.26 import shows ANY map icon.
  Thumbnail map icons

[0709wiwiwi]

A possible result as shown in Locus ... transfer ANY icon ... or logo.
Tap a waypoint and find usefull extra information attached.

5r_wpt-be_navtrk-ORGAPIN.gpz.txt

[0709wiwiwi]

Examples by kmz.

Organic_map_red ear_yellow_logo_wpt_purple_trk.kmz.txt

Import in Locus 4.26 or Android GE or desktop GE Pro.

• Contains Track LineStyle:
  Trk color and width and an image in description. (Display in GE Pro_Locus)

• Contains Waypoint IconStyle
  Custom icons change color scale heading set hotSpot and an image in description of waypoint Kapel.

Organic_Placemark.kmz.txt

Organic icon, set color, set size, set heading & set hotSpot.