Myself and teammate had some discussion on Google maps icon change option where we can change it to three types of vehicles and like to see your views on below query. One who works and knows google, can anticipate that google will accept a feature request such that they will charge car manufacturers and allow to add their car models/icons ?? Or you see this as something that’s not the scope and a distraction of actual product?. (My teammate statement is that consider this feature as win-win situation to make users happy, manufactures happy and google gets money).
Seems silly
Agreed, But I respect to listen and I ended up posting here to get the thoughts as per my teammate
Seems pointless
Honestly wouldn't choose to have anything besides an arrow as custom pointers have made navigation difficult in the past.
I see what you are trying to do. Curious, if it will target the right audience. If I have brand X, I will chose the icon for that brand, but since I have the car already, I am not a high priority segment customer for auto manufacturer or X. So curious why will manufacturers pay for it? Also, please don't monetise Google maps 😐
Don’t want to be mean, but this feature seems to be meaningless to end customers. Do I care if I can choose different car icons? No! If there is one thing I wish google map can do better is: please figure out the right direction my car is facing when I just get started so that I don’t have to do u-turns or loop around. It’s especially important when I am in an area I don’t have a clue about.
+1
You must be trolling