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Landmarks like never before: Meet the newest icons on the ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓÆµ basemap

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With the latest release of ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓÆµ Standard, the basemap now includes a set of beautiful, stylized landmark POI icons that complement the custom designed 3D landmark models. These new landmark icons give users location context at a glance¡ªimmediately providing a more intuitive and immersive map experience.

Landmark icons help Tripadvisor build the best map for travelers

Tripadvisor switched to ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓÆµ because the flexibility and customization of ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓÆµ Standard allowed them to build a map truly tailored towards travelers. Their vision was to simplify the map and let the traveler-specific location content shine, allowing people to quickly and easily discover the destinations most important to them. The landmark icons helped them build a map that better highlights key landmarks and tourist areas.

"Landmark icons were one of the key differentiators we identified when we were evaluating our new map provider. They directly support our vision to build the best map in the world for travelers by highlighting what's most relevant to them. The icons help our travelers orient themselves, understand how things like hotels, restaurants, or attractions spatially relate to popular landmarks, and ultimately provide the geographic context necessary for making great planning decisions. It helps us create a more engaging and delightful map experience that feels seamlessly connected across our site and app."
Jeremy Frisch, Product Lead, Places & Maps, Tripadvisor

By visually anchoring destinations to recognizable landmarks, Tripadvisor improves usability and trust¡ªmaking maps not only beautiful, but meaningful.

Landmark icons improve wayfinding for navigation

Landmark icons appear at zoom level 10 and then disappear at zoom level 17 when the custom designed 3D landmark models become prominent. The icons enhance maps with both a premium design feel and practical value, as the icons make it easier to orient while viewing an overview of a city. Users can understand immediately where somewhere is in relation to the city¡¯s most popular landmarks.

For example, Auto OEMs can add this premium design element to their in-car navigation and companion app to reinforce an upscale brand design and also improve wayfinding.

A fitness or outdoor application could visualize landmark icons to help users plan a scenic run. Once the route is completed and recorded, the icons help visualize a particularly memorable route and create a more interesting and shareable map.

Designed to stand out, built to fit in

Landmark icons adjust to the light and dark settings of ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓÆµ Standard. When developers customize the overall color aesthetic of ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓÆµ Standard using color themes, the icons react to these color changes as well.

Developers can take full advantage of interactive map features, a simplified system recently released for building interactions into icons. With just minutes of work and a few lines of code, interactions could be enabled for serving pop ups with more information, saving a landmark on an itinerary, or setting a destination for turn-by-turn navigation.

The icons are available right now in ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓÆµ Standard, but they are turned off by default. Users can easily turn them on in ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓÆµ Studio or by using the property in runtime.

1600 landmark icons and counting

1,600 landmark icons are currently available in over 40 global cities like Paris, Rome, New Delhi, Istanbul, Rio de Janeiro, New York and more. More cities are being released on a regular basis.

Get started now

As with all new features in , landmark icons are available right now without the need for a manual, time-consuming style update. Start today with ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓÆµ Standard and take advantage of the 3D basemap and functional feature set - .

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