Since the 3.2 release of WP Geo it is possible to easily add new marker icons via a filter, either in your theme’s functions.php file or as a plugin.

I would suggest that if you are creating a marker icon specifically for your theme you add it your theme’s functions.php file. However, it is possible to create a set of markers packaged in a single plugin – ideal if you want to share your icons by releasing them on the WordPress plugin repository. If you do this please tag it as ‘wp-geo’ to make it easier to find in the plugin repository.

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1. You are interested in testing out beta and development versions of WP Geo and providing feedback.
2. You develop a plugin that works with WP Geo and need to keep up-to-date with development.
3. You are interested in translating WP Geo – I’ll let you know via this list when there is new text to translate.

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1. General feature requests.
2. Issues/bugs relating to a current release WP Geo – development/beta discussion only please.
3. Help getting stuff to work.

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Thank you for all your feedback about the bugs in 3.1.3

They should now be fixed and in addition 3.1.4 contains the follow fixes, changes and enhancements.

Improvements for users:

• Now uses new Google 3D map control.
• Adding text colour style to tooltip text in case default text colour is white.
• Prevent map from aligning marker centre on zoom. Added a link to centre manually instead.
• Added option to save post map centre point.
• Added wpgeo_map() and get_wpgeo_map() functions to display custom maps based on a WordPress query.
• Language files updated.

…and if you’re a developer:

• Moved a lot of JavaScript for the post edit page to external files.
• Code formatting clean-up, added code comments, files restructured.
• Added WPGeo_Marker class in preparation for better marker management.
• Added wpgeo_init action hook.
• Added wpgeo_the_content_map filter.
• Added wpgeo_edit_post_map_fields filter.
• Added wpgeo_point_title filter.
• Added wpgeo_show_post_map filter.

This minor update to WP Geo adds French language support.

Finally…
The Google Earth plugin is available to download for Macs…