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This article shows how to use your own icons to label places in maps that you make with the My Maps' feature in   Google Maps . My Maps is a tool provided by Google Maps that lets you make a map showing a specific collection of places. Why is this helpful?   Well, you can search for a collection of places in regular Google Maps, and share the maps you can see - but if you do this, other people will see different places that are marked on the version of the maps that Google shows them, not the same as the places that are marked for you.    To guarantee what set of places other people see, you need to make a map in My Maps, and then you can share this specific map. My Maps provides a standard set of icons that can be used for labelling places - and these days it's a pretty impressive standard set.   But it still doesn't include numbers, letters or other labels - and the icons provided may not be styled the way you would like. Luckily Google have provided a way for