The new pins, which now more closely resemble round symbols, better fit into the other graphics used in Google Maps to mark places, such as those saved to visit in the future.

Making Proportional Symbols in KML – using the placemark icon element to make proportional symbols Using Google Charts with KML – This innovative KML approach can also be used in Google Maps ...

the graphic, is just, it's basically -- we never, ever, ever intended it to be gunsights. It was simply crosshairs like you see on maps. BRUCE: Well, it's a surveyor's symbol. It's a surveyor's ...

Map symbols show what can be found in an area. Each feature of the landscape has a different symbol. Contour lines are lines that join up areas of equal height on a map. By looking at how far ...

It also produced these clever training posters, which show in a very visual way how the symbols used on Soviet military maps corresponded to things in the real world. The posters offer insight ...

On the left, the temple symbol currently used on Japanese-language maps, and on the right is the proposed new symbol for foreign-language maps A Japanese proposal to stop using swastikas to ...