Icon design

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Hi people!!

The icons are great and the variety is awesome. Keep up the good work and
thank you for making them available.
I just wonder, why did the icons drift from the original google design?
I mean the icons are great, but why did you not design them to conform with
the original icons and instead everyone is designing them with the coloured
box standard?

Just a question hehe
thanks for your time!! :)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by robapo...@gmail.com on 20 Sep 2009 at 6:43

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hello robapolo !
thanx for the feedback.

I just don't understand one thing : what icons do you call 
"original icons", do you mean the "balloon" ones?

 tell me :)
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Nico

Original comment by nico.mol...@gmail.com on 20 Sep 2009 at 8:53

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Hi!
Well by "original icons" I mean those that are included by default when you 
create a map in google maps. 
Including but not limited to the "ballons". There is a "coffee cup", also a 
restaurant sign and other icons. 
Also in the first page of this site there is a banner that says something like 
"change your old 
placemarkers with the new beautiful and meaningful...".
Does that mean that from now on the standard placemarkers will be little 
colored boxes?
Thanks for your time!
:)   

Original comment by robapo...@gmail.com on 21 Sep 2009 at 12:25

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Hola Robapollo,

First of all me and Nico are in no way associated to Google. We are just two 
guys who
spend some of our free time creating icons to anyone who want to put the on 
their
maps to make them look better, in our humble opinion.

For why we didn't continue the style of the default Goggle Maps icons the 
answers are
many.  First of all I personally think they are a little to childish, also they 
only
vaguely follow any color-coding for categories and third they are pretty big and
obscure a lot of the map, not to mention that I probably could not even make new
icons in that style... I think our way of doing it using a background shield in 
a
color makes it a lot easier to see what type of icon it is and makes the icon 
symbol
it self stand out better in a "road sign" type of way. All in all makes the 
maps with
out icons stick out in the crowd in a professional, descriptive and of cause
beautiful way! ;-)  As for the pins, they are to small to draw any icons in 
them.

So, no, the standard Google Maps icons will be there as long as Google want and 
if
you are happier using them you should.  Me and Nico will in the mean time 
continue to
build our own collection and share it with anyone who feels that they better 
suit
their Maps.

So this is my own humble opinion. Thank you for sharing your point of view 
anyway.

Kind regards,

Matthias (www.myBCN.es)

Original comment by myBCN...@gmail.com on 21 Sep 2009 at 7:25

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Thanks for the comments.
I appretiate your work a lot, and I will be using some of the great icons 
you've 
kindly shared with us.
As for my website, I'll be sharing the link with you because I read in a post 
that 
you guys were listing all sites that use your icons. (http://www.enmty.com)
The website is still in a very very early development stage as you'll be able 
to 
notice if you open it.

Anyways, thanks again for your time and effort in designing the icons!

Ernesto

Original comment by robapo...@gmail.com on 21 Sep 2009 at 7:40

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Hello Ernesto,

If we can help you in your project, regarding the map icons, let us know :)

And tell us when your site is ready, ok ?

Regards
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Nico

Original comment by nico.mol...@gmail.com on 28 Sep 2009 at 12:44

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