Change the style of landmarks

Availability: This feature is visible on Android, iOS, Maps JavaScript API, and Maps Static.

Landmarks and prominent places can have their own icons. You can choose from twodifferent icon types to represent these types of places:Standard POI icons are similar in appearance to other map place markers;Illustrated POI icons feature a more distinctive appearance.

Experimental: This feature can only be set for light map styles. When you link alight map style that has custom landmark styles to a map ID, these styles alsoapply to the dark map style.

To change the landmark icon style, perform the following steps:

  1. Zoom in on the map enough to see landmarks shown. For example, zoom in toParis with a zoom level of 13.

  2. InMap features, select thegear icon to open theMap Settings menu.

    • Select theStandard landmark style to display standard POI icons:
      A map of downtown Seattle showing standard Google POI icons: a tiny white icon on a teardrop-shaped teal icon glyph over landmarks like the Art Museum and Smith Tower.

    • Select theIllustrated landmark style to display distinctive POIicons:
      A map of downtown Seattle showing distinctive POI icons: a small black-and-white line art illustration of the POI in question such as Smith Tower. These markers are about twice to three times the size of a standard POI marker including the marker background.

    Note: When you enable illustrated icons, landmark POI icons replace the POIsthat have an associated illustrated icon. When you disable illustratedicons, the illustrated icons revert back to the original feature type ofthat POI.

  3. Open theLandmark element pane by using the filter or the map inspector.For more information, seeFind map features.

  4. In theLandmark element pane, you can customize the visibility, iconcolor, text fill color, and text stroke color.

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Last updated 2025-12-11 UTC.