The easiest way to spice up your map is to sprinkle some custom icons over it. In order to make this process easier we’ve decided to include a set of custom map icons in the next release of UMapper. Before we do that, though, we want to get your feedback on the icon set below:
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What do you think? Which icons (and colors) would you like to see?
These icons are a part of the open source Map Icons project and are available for download under the GNU General Public License v3. We strongly encourage you to download the source, contribute to the project and design some icons for UMapper!
Special thanks to Nico Mollet for starting the project!
July 10th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Very nice and very helpful to improve the appearance of maps!
August 4th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Numbered icons.
September 8th, 2009 at 8:09 am
[...] few months ago we asked for your help with designing a default UMapper icon set. Today we are excited to announce that the [...]
January 13th, 2010 at 9:42 am
[...] full list of our icons can be found here, below are some of [...]
March 15th, 2010 at 11:00 am
btw to prenvent confusion: the licence of the google map icons is the “Creative Commons 3.0 BY-SA”