Title: [Plugin: Basic Google Maps Placemarks] Icons?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Basic Google Maps Placemarks] Icons?

 *  Resolved [whitdougherty@gmail.com](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whitdoughertygmailcom/)
 * (@whitdoughertygmailcom)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-basic-google-maps-placemarks-icons/)
 * Okay, I feel really stupid asking this but I’m confused about this line in the
   basic usage instructions:
    Click on ‘Set Featured Image’ to upload the icon. 
   What icon am I supposed to upload? I feel like I’m missing something really simple
   here but I can’t seem to figure it out! Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/basic-google-maps-placemarks/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/basic-google-maps-placemarks/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Ian Dunn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iandunn/)
 * (@iandunn)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-basic-google-maps-placemarks-icons/#post-2359888)
 * If you want, you can upload a custom icon for the placemark. For example, if 
   you were creating a map of your favorite restaurants, you could upload each restaurant’s
   logo to use as their marker. This is how the example site ([washingtonhousechurches.net](http://washingtonhousechurches.net/))
   has different icons for different markers.
 * If you don’t upload a custom icon, it’ll use the default icon of a typical map
   pin.
 *  [gideonsmolders](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gideonsmolders/)
 * (@gideonsmolders)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-basic-google-maps-placemarks-icons/#post-2359956)
 * Do I get it correctly? If I upload a featured image for a specific placemark,
   it will replace the standard icon? correct?
 * Can we also do this on a category bases? So I define a category and I can specify
   an icon for this category, which then replaces the standard icon on the map?
 * Is this possible?
 *  Plugin Author [Ian Dunn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iandunn/)
 * (@iandunn)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-basic-google-maps-placemarks-icons/#post-2359957)
 * [@gideonsmolders](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gideonsmolders/) – Yes,
   setting a featured image on a placemark overrides the default icon.
 * Right now you can’t set a featured icon for an entire category, but I may add
   that feature in the future.

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 * Last reply from: [Ian Dunn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iandunn/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-basic-google-maps-placemarks-icons/#post-2359957)
 * Status: resolved