drawing square icons with Google Image Charts

Question

I'm using Google Image Charts (yes, I know it's deprecated :-)) to draw circular icons on a Google Map, i.e.:

http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=it&chs=48x48&chco=33FF33,000000ff,ffffff01&chl=a&chx=000000,0&chf=bg,s,00000000&ext=.png

Is there a way to draw square icons instead? Unfortunately all references to "cht=it" chart type seems to be disappeared from the Net.

Is there an alternative to Google Image Charts for drawing dynamic icons on a Google Map? I need to control dimensions, color, shape and label.

Answer 1

Is there an alternative to Google Image Charts for drawing dynamic icons on a Google Map? I need to control dimensions, color, shape and label.

Yes there is. What you're looking for is Drawing on the Map. Here you can use your custom icons, whatever shape they maybe.

Some actual examples for the things you've mentioned:

-Labels example

-Square shapes

-Custom shapes

-Draw on the Map