AwesomeIcon

Font-Awesome icons for markers, see https://fontawesome.com/v4.7.0/icons for available icons.

Example

from ipyleaflet import AwesomeIcon, Marker, Map

center = (38.91342738235981, -77.03912909142674)

icon1 = AwesomeIcon(
    name='bus',
    marker_color='red',
    icon_color='black',
    spin=False
)

marker1 = Marker(icon=icon1, location=(center[0], center[1] - 0.05))

icon2 = AwesomeIcon(
    name='gear',
    marker_color='green',
    icon_color='darkgreen',
    spin=True
)

marker2 = Marker(icon=icon2, location=(center[0], center[1] + 0.05))

m = Map(center=center, zoom=13)

m.add(marker1)
m.add(marker2)

m

Interactions

Unlike other widgets in ipyleaflet, the AwesomeIcon widget is not dynamic. If you want to dynamically update the marker icon, you need to reassign the Marker.icon property with a new icon.

marker1.icon = AwesomeIcon(
    name='home',
    marker_color='blue',
    icon_color='black'
)

Attributes

class ipyleaflet.leaflet.AwesomeIcon(**kwargs: Any)

AwesomeIcon class.

FontAwesome icon used for markers.

name

The name of the FontAwesome icon to use. See https://fontawesome.com/v4.7.0/icons for available icons.

Type:

string, default “home”

marker_color

Color used for the icon background.

Type:

string, default “blue”

icon_color

CSS color used for the FontAwesome icon.

Type:

string, default “white”

spin

Whether the icon is spinning or not.

Type:

boolean, default False