Google Maps is useful, fun, and innovative with features like Google Street Views. This week it just became a bit more customizable with a feature that allows you to personalize Google Map icons.
Google My Maps allowed you to choose from preset library of Google Map icons (martini glass, train, thumbtack, and etc.). But now when building a map you can use any image or photograph so long as the image file is posted to Internet and has a unique URL.
I can see how this could be a great way to personalize shared maps with images that reflect your personal taste far better than canned Google icons may.
To use the feature when creating a personalized Google My Maps just click on the My Icons link and click on the Add an Icon link. Any icons that you add to your Google Map stay in your library so you can use them in the future.
This is new? I've been doing this for months now.