Select platform: [Android](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/android-sdk/cloud-customization/landmarks.md.txt "View this page for the Android platform docs.") [iOS](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/ios-sdk/cloud-customization/landmarks.md.txt "View this page for the iOS platform docs.") [JavaScript](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/cloud-customization/landmarks.md.txt "View this page for the JavaScript platform docs.") [Web Service](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/maps-static/cloud-customization/landmarks.md.txt "View this page for the Web Service platform docs.")

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To use cloud-based maps styling on Android, you must use the latest renderer for Maps SDK for Android. [Follow these instructions](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/android-sdk/renderer.md.txt).

> [!IMPORTANT]
> Availability: This feature is visible on Android, iOS, Maps JavaScript API, and Maps Static. It's not available for 3D Maps.

Landmarks and prominent places can have their own icons. You can choose from two
different icon types to represent these types of places:
**Standard** POI icons are similar in appearance to other map place markers;
**Illustrated** POI icons feature a more distinctive appearance.

> [!WARNING]
> **Experimental:** This feature can only be set for light map styles. When you link a light map style that has custom landmark styles to a map ID, these styles also apply to the dark map style.

To change the landmark icon style, perform the following steps:

1. Zoom in on the map enough to see landmarks shown. For example, zoom in to
   Paris with a zoom level of 13.

2. In **Map features** , select the
   gear icon to open the **Map Settings** menu.  

   - Select the **Standard** landmark style to display standard POI icons:

     ![A map of downtown Seattle showing standard Google POI icons: a tiny white icon on a teardrop-shaped teal icon glyph over landmarks like the Art Museum and Smith Tower.](https://developers.google.com/static/maps/images/cloud-customization/landmark-standard-icon.png)

   - Select the **Illustrated** landmark style to display distinctive POI
     icons:

     ![A map of downtown Seattle showing distinctive POI icons: a small black-and-white line art illustration of the POI in question such as Smith Tower. These markers are about twice to three times the size of a standard POI marker including the marker background.](https://developers.google.com/static/maps/images/cloud-customization/landmark-illustrated-icon.png)

   > [!NOTE]
   > **Note:** When you enable illustrated icons, landmark POI icons replace the POIs that have an associated illustrated icon. When you disable illustrated icons, the illustrated icons revert back to the original feature type of that POI.

3. Open the **Landmark** element pane by using the filter or the map inspector.
   For more information, see [Find map features](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/android-sdk/cloud-customization/map-styles.md.txt).

4. In the **Landmark** element pane, you can customize the visibility, icon
   color, text fill color, and text stroke color.