Custom Icons... and other Features of Note

Hello Mappers,

Good things are happening at mapalist and we’re excited to share them with you. Just a few days ago, we released a fun new feature that enables the use of your custom icons on your maps.

Ready to give it a whirl? Make all your custom icon dreams come true. We hope this long time coming highly requested update is intuitive, but just in case, we added a step by step.

Log in and click on your username (upper right) to visit the account page.
Click on the custom map settings tab.
If you have an image ready to go, click on the box to upload (we support PNG and SVG formats).
If not, visit images.google.com and search for “PNG” or “SVG” followed by the type of image you’re looking for (e.g., “PNG baseball bat”, “SVG windmill”) - from there you can save and upload it.
Rinse and repeat for as many images you desire.

In other release related news, we’ve updated the account page with tabs making it easier to navigate. On that same page (on the billing tab), we’ve also added transparency in addition to enabling you to download invoices and receipts. Our full release notes, as always, can be found here.

Want to weigh in on our next set of features? Take this 1 question survey and help us decide what to build next.

You all have created nearly 700,000 maps using our solution to date; for that we’re amped and thankful.

Party on!

Sincerely,
Brian and Benjy

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