Changing Your Map's Pin Icons, Shapes, and Size

This article is about the Proxi admin app at app.proxi.co.

Pins are the first thing anyone notices on your map. You can give every place the same pin, or let each category carry its own icon — and you can make them all bigger or smaller in a couple of seconds. It all lives in one place.

Open your map from the Maps page, then open the Markers section in the settings rail on the left. The preview on the right is your real live map, so every change shows up instantly, and everything saves as you go.

This is the quickest change, so start here if that's what you came for.

The range runs from 16 to 64 pixels. Somewhere in the middle suits most maps — go bigger for a printed handout or a map with only a handful of stops, smaller when you have hundreds of pins and want the streets to stay readable underneath.

Expand Marker style and pick All the same. You'll get one pin design that every place uses. Three ways to set it:

This is what most maps want: produce stands in green, food trucks in orange, restrooms with their own icon.

Each place now gets the icon attached to its value for that field. A place with no value falls back to whatever you set under All the same.

Below the field picker you'll see a card headed Options on "Category" listing every option with its current pin. Click any one to open it.

Here's the part that trips people up, so it's worth being clear about.

Your categories and their icons belong to the collection, and a collection can feed several maps. Change an icon there and it changes on all of them. That's usually what you want — but not always. Maybe your summer market map wants brighter pins than the year-round directory that uses the same vendor list.

So the options list inside Marker style changes that map only. As the panel says: These changes apply to this map only. The shared option defaults stay as they are everywhere else.

Each row tells you which is which: a category you've restyled here reads Custom for this map, and one still following the shared icon reads Default. To put a category back the way it was everywhere else, open it and reset it.

Want the change to apply everywhere instead? Click Edit shared option defaults at the bottom of the list — that opens the fields editor, where the icon belongs to the collection and every map using it will pick up the change. See Setting Up Categories, Fields, and Labels.

The per-category size slider is the easiest way to draw the eye somewhere. Sponsors, main-stage venues, or the information booth can sit a few sizes larger than everything else so they read first, without changing a single icon.