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Map Icons Collection suffered many server issues the last 30 days, in the end my hosting Infomaniak decided to block the website. After four years on the same hosting, they only found out now that the website is using too much filehandle I/O, and they considered it was against the hosting policy.

Hopefully, Map Icons Collection found a new home. Robert from Mapsmarker.com offered his help to save Map Icons Collection. Thank you so much Robert! The new URL now is:
https://mapicons.mapsmarker.com

Mapsmarker is a WordPress plugin that allows you to pin, organize and share your favorite spots easily. You can use maps from OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Google Earth, Bing Maps or custom maps and additionally display your spots and tracks in innovative ways like through augmented-reality browsers.
Give it a try, it has a 30 days free trial!

Google Drive changed UI the last couple of months, and the tutorial wasn’t accurate anymore.

I just updated the tutorial to reflect Google Drive changes. Please follow the new directions and tell me if everything is OK in the comments section below.

For users creating their own maps with Google “My Maps” and adding their custom markers, it’s useless to switch to the new Google Maps.

In this current state, new Google Maps doesn’t offer the possibility to create your own maps.

In their FAQ, they say the following:

“My Places, My Maps, and classic Google Maps
Since this is just a preview of the new Google Maps experience, we’re still working on adding features, so not all functionality from classic Google Maps is available yet. If you’d like to see a list of all your reviews, ratings, check-ins, or starred items, you can still load classic Google Maps. You can also access, edit, and delete this content from your Google Dashboard.

We now also have a brand new product for creating custom maps – Google Maps Engine Lite. Users can create powerful maps by importing and adding data onto the map to visualize trends. Check it out at mapsengine.google.com/map/. To access your previous My Maps and My Places content, you can click the gear menu [icon] and select My Places.”

Maps Engine lets you create your own maps, but the problem is, it doesn’t allow you to add custom icons: only icons from a default list.

The Numbers page is now working properly, in particular the download function.

Note that I limited their number to 100 instead of 300.

See the four numbers and letters pages:

Numbers, Letters, Symbols pages:

• Numbers
• Letters
• Special characters
• Days of the Week

I just added a tutorial explaning how to host the icons on Google Drive.

Since new Dropbox accounts (after october 2012) don’t have the “public link” feature anymore, Google Drive is a good alternative.

I need your feedback to help me know if the tutorial has enough details.