Google Sponsored Map Icons is a new way to promote your business within Google Maps. It is similar to how Google began plotting points of interests back last August but there was no way to pay to ...

9to5Google reports that Google is testing a UI change in beta versions of Maps (version 25.06.x). This sees the icons for your saved places turning into dots when you zoom out.

However, the map layout is different on the web. Still, the symbols and icons are the same on the web, making navigating easy even if unfamiliar with the Google Maps web interface.

Google says, "The new navigation map starts rolling out to select countries in the coming weeks on Android, iOS, Android Auto, and CarPlay." The features are apparently rolling out in stages, too.

Google Maps Has New Car Icons, and Users Will Love Them Published: 2 Mar 2025, 08:00 UTC • By: Bogdan Popa 6 photos ...

And the living proof is the support for custom car icons on Google Maps, a feature that’s been around for a couple of years already on the iPhone. Despite users running Android, Google’s ...

All Google devices that use Maps will be getting the update “over the next few weeks,” including the Assistant, search, Google Earth, and Android Auto. Eventually, the changes will also ...

Open Google Maps and navigate to major cities like London, Paris, Rome, Barcelona, New York, and you should find these large landmark icons denoting the cities' most important locations.

Google is now testing Material Theme icons alongside each Search category on the web. This A/B test was spotted by Joe Youngblood yesterday, who shared the new contextual icons that appear right ...