New Feature: Colors in waypoint icon choices
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Love the icons, having the set available really helps as I’m building out maps for different topics. I would love to be able to assign a color to the ring around the picture icon though, not just have the default blue. By having a set of different colored rings, the same icon allows you to record and easily visually recall subcategories you define by those colors.
For example, as I am scouting for places to shoot landscape picture, and overtime as I actually shoot there, I'm recording waypoints. Each waypoint has the same icon and I currently have a set of sub folders named to help me record the status of those locations, e.g. good, to try, to try but I have to figure out how to actually get there, etc.
However, the folder names don’t help to just look at a map and distinguish between them. If I want to try a new place and check one off to see if it’s actually good, I have to manually go in and hide the other folders which then also means I don’t have any sort of visual reference about how close or far it might be from places I do shoot from. Having colored rings, just like we have different colors for the basic pins, would mean I could use different colors to indicate different status and then easily pick them apart, all while still using the same icon to indicate what the overall category is. Not to mention it would make dealing with the folder and subfolder management a lot easier. :-)
So I know there’s a feature request looking for more icons, which I would also like. But I'm posting this separately (and I'll go add my ++ to more icons, too) as it's a bit different than just more icons (and maybe would be easier?).
Thanks!!
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Hello all! Big news!
Today, we've made it easier to create your own map by bringing color into the mix for all waypoints, including the emojis added last year. Premium users can now change the border color of waypoint icons to better visually differentiate your waypoints. On the technical side, this also involved migrating nearly 40 million waypoints to our new format which our new back end team crushed!
Check it on on the Web or Android.
iOS will be hot on its heels next week.
Here's how to use this new feature: https://help.gaiagps.com/hc/en-us/articles/360050583453-Create-and-Edit-Waypoints-in-the-App
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I want this feature for very similar reasons. For overlanding/dispersed camping, I want the ability to visually distinguish among camping sites with different qualities, namely: 1) potential spot found via map scouting that I haven't physically visited yet, 2) visited and it's a good site, and 3) visited and it's not a good site. What I want is to use the same tent waypoint icon, but with different colors that are assigned these meanings I described above.
What'd be great is, just like the way you can access emoji's of different colors on iOS, if I long-tap-and-hold on the camp icon, I can choose what colored ring I want to assign to it.
Thanks,
Joe
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This would be a great feature, along with additional icon choices.
That said, the official Emoji set is growing all the time, and there are icons for nearly everything -- Hiking boots, fishing, paddling, transportation, food, camping... Why have a proprietary set of icons when there is a now a standardized set that are broadly adopted?
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I would like this as well, in addition to Change icons colors or styles for entire folder.
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Yes, more icon options, and my priority would be to take the specific icons for numbers 0-9, which are currently white only, and render them in all ten of the colors of the generic waypoint "down-pins." That would yield 100 icons in that set alone, which I use for marking individual plant species.
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Hi Don,
Thanks for reaching out. There is no way to change the default color, however, I have shared your feedback with the product team for consideration in future updates.
In the meantime, if you need to change several waypoints at once, please try these steps to bulk edit your waypoints on gaiagps.com: Edit Waypoints on gaiagps.com
If you run into any other issues, please contact support here: https://help.gaiagps.com/hc/en-us/requests/new -
"which our new back end team crushed!" They didn't crush anything. We still have giant icons that look as if they are used by children. We can bulk edit and change any icons we want, as long as they are childish. Spare me "crushed", after so many years. My decades-old DeLorme software allows me to design my own icons. I can scarcely see my map for the giant icons. It's one of the reasons I still carry my PN60. GaiaGPS has many strengths, but icons ain't one of 'em.
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New default color choice (red) compared to blue being the only choice available before makes no sense to me. Now my map of several thousand waypoints is confusingly mixed with two colors, old and new. No way I'm going to spend the time updating each of these waypoints, even with the mass update (where you still have to select a radio button for each and every waypoint).
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