Custom Icon Resolution

Hi, as part of a story I have a slide displaying some of the local colleges and universities in our area. Because we need to use the logos for each school, I cannot use the point annotation feature. The logos are from high resolution images, but they never display well. Graphic design folks suggested svg, but that doesn’t seem possible with kmz files. Another issue is that many of the logos overlap, but the resolution issue is my main question. Here is my example slide. I’d appreciate suggestions for better display of the icons at all scales. Thanks for any help, much appreciated!
–Courtney Corman

Hi Courtney,

Thanks for reaching out. Having custom images for point annotations is a feature that we are interested in adding and your feedback helps us prioritize it.

One problem with the existing slide might be that you are scaling down the high resolution images into very small images. I would suggest trying to resize the images down to the scale that they display in the viewer before you add them to the KMZ. That should reduce the amount of small pixel changes that I see happening as you move in the viewer.

Please let us know if that works for you.

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