Place Icons

Select platform: Android iOS JavaScript Web Service

Place icons indicate the various types of places (for example coffee shops, libraries, and museums). You can request URLs for icons in PNG format, as well as the corresponding icon background color, with Current Place, and Place Details requests.

To request an icon image and background color for a place, include the following fields in your request:

• GMSPlaceFieldIconImageURL
• GMSPlaceFieldIconBackgroundColor

The following examples demonstrate using the icon image and background color from a Current Place or Place Details request:

Swift

let place: GMSPlace

// Icon image URL
let url = URL(string: place.iconImageUrl)
DispatchQueue.global().async {
    guard let url = url,
        let imageData = try? Data(contentsOf: url) else {
      print("Could not get image")
      return
    }
    DispatchQueue.main.async {
      let iconImage = UIImage(data: iconImageData)

      // Icon image background color
      let iconBackgroundView = UIView(frame: .zero)
      iconBackgroundView.backgroundColor = place.iconBackgroundColor

      // Change icon image color to white
      let templateImage = iconImage.imageWithRenderingMode(UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysTemplate)
      imageView.image = templateImage
      imageView.tintColor = UIColor.white
    }
}

Objective-C

GMSPlace *place;

dispatch_async(dispatch_get_global_queue(0, 0), ^{
  // Icon image URL
  NSData * iconImageData = [[NSData alloc] initWithContentsOfURL: [NSURL URLWithString: place.iconImageUrl]];
      if (!iconImageData)
          return;
      dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
        UIImage *iconImage = [UIImage imageWithData:iconImageData];

        // Icon image background color
        UIView *iconBackgroundView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero];
        [iconBackgroundView setBackgroundColor:place.iconBackgroundColor];

        // Change icon image color to white
        iconImage = [iconImage imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysTemplate];
        [imageView setTintColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];
      });
});

Icon URLs may change, so be sure to always use iconImageUrl to look up the URL for an icon.

Fields

Each Place icon contains these fields:

• iconImageUrl returns the base URL for a non-colored PNG icon.
• iconBackgroundColor returns the default UIExtendedSRGBColorSpace color code for the place's category.

Place icon and background color requests

The following tables show all of the available place icons by category. By default these display with a black glyph. The icon_background_color is dictated by the place's category.

Place category: Food and drink (icon background color #FF9E67)
Bar, Night club	Cafe	Restaurant, Bakery
Place category: Retail (icon background color #4B96F3)
Books, Clothing, Electronics, Jewelry, Shoes, Shopping center/Mall	Convenience store	Grocery, Supermarket	Pharmacy
Place category: Services (icon background color #909CE1)
ATM	Bank	Gas	Lodging
Post office
Place category: Entertainment (icon background color #13B5C7)
Aquarium, Tourist	Golf	Historic	Movie
Museum	Theater
Place category: Transportation (icon background color #10BDFF)
Airport	Bus, rideshare, taxi	Train/Rail
Place category: Municipal/generic/religious (icon background color #7B9EB0)
Cemetery	Civic building	Library	Monument
Parking	School (primary, secondary, university)	Worship (Buddhist)	Worship (Christian)
Worship (Hindu)	Worship (Islam)	Worship (Jain)	Worship (Jewish)
Worship (Sikh)	Generic business
Place category: Outdoor (icon background color #4DB546)
Boating	Camping	Park	Stadium
Zoo
Place category: Emergency (icon background color #F88181)
Hospital	Police