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Is there a way to choose the icon for a place that I add to a Google Map (in My Places) when I add it?

• This is the way it seems like I have to add places to a map I've made in "My Places": 1)  Open map 2)  Search for the place I want to add 3)  Click on its icon on the map, or on the left in its "entry" 4)  Click "save to map" in its bubble, select the map I want to save to, and click the save button It now has the icon/marker type of the *previous* place I saved.  So if the last place was a hotel, but I just added a restaurant, this restaurant has a bed icon.  So now, 5)  Click "view map" on the thing that popped up on the top that says "[place name] was saved to [map name]" 6)  Click the red edit button 7)  Find the place that I just saved in the list of places on this map on the left (always the last item, I guess) and click it 8)  On the bubble that pops up, click the icon in the upper right 9)  Choose the icon I want for this place Am I doing something wrong?  It seems bizarre that when I add a place, I have to go through all these extra steps to choose the icon that I want for it.  Is there a way to choose the icon when I add it to the map?

• Answer:

  When using this flow/functionality to add Places to your own Map then Google will always automatically select the last icon you used, there is no way around it. To avoid this you would need to add Places from your own Map page by clicking the Pin, drop it on the location you want and changing the icon. This flow has the disadvantage of not being able to use an already existing Place...