Hard to find consistent icons…

[Yogie]

Hello,

I don’t know if you also have ever run into the situation, where none of the existing icon libraries off all icons you like to see. Currently I am struggling not having a waterfall icon.

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I really like the build in icon designer.

How cool would it be if you could use the designer with custom PNG files!

Cheers
Yogie

[Yogie]

icons8-wasserfall-48.png

mappressicon.jpg

[Chris]

Hi, the icon designer is meant as a mini-editor, and it’s based on SVGs.

It’s not as full-featured as a dedicated icon editor, but there are lots of web-based editors that will work. One of the easiest is Google’s material icons: https://fonts.google.com/icons (unfortunately, they don’t have a ‘waterfall’ icon either). Maybe a site like this will work for you: https://icons8.com/icon/eX1rkIM7LjBM/waterfall.

Or, try chatGPT. It whipped up a very nice icon for me with this prompt: “create a 128×128 png icon of a waterfall in the style of Google material icons”.

Anyway, once you have created a custom PNG file it’s easy to use it in MapPress and display it on your map (see the documentation for details).

[Yogie]

Thanks a lot @Chris, the AI prompt helped me to create the icons I am missing, but also your changes and new implementation of the symbol font helped to find and create missing icons. Problem solved!

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