The new icon, which you can see in the picture above, shows the Google “g” subtly added on top of a map that also includes the iconic Google Maps pin.

Alternatively, you can drop a custom pin by clicking the Add Marker icon below the search bar and clicking on the map where you would like to drop your pin. Adam Birney / Android Authority ...

Google Maps is turning 15 this year, and Google is celebrating with a new icon and a few UI tweaks. First, the Google Maps icon is no longer, well, a map and is now a multi-colored map pin.

Google Maps Tests Blue Pins & Gray Map Icon Oct 5, 2016 - 8:07 am 0 — by Barry Schwartz Filed Under Google Maps ...

Google has used different types of icons in their maps but it seems no one knows what the P is for. They've used H for hospitals, they've tried promotion/sponsored icons, they've used images and ...

As tweeted this weekend by James Mountain and featured on the financial site Minyanville, the new icon for the Maps app in iOS 6 features a slight change to emphasize the turn-by-turn directions ...

But don’t worry, it doesn’t drop giant pins onto the earth as the above photo depicts — that’s an artistic sculpture of the 15-pixel digital icon. Here’s how to drop a pin on Google Maps.