WTH Can't the map card show icons for entities instead of circles with text

Month of "What the heck?!"
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I use home assistant for tracking a fair few GPS sources (things like aircraft, weather balloons, satellites etc.) and displaying them on the map cards. It’d be really awesome if the map card could show icons for the devices instead of a mess of circles with a single letter that doesn’t make much sense.

I’d also give bonus points if it was possible to optionally display labels or attributes next to the icons (ie. when hovering over the icon)

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You need to add an entity_picture in customize.yaml on the entity and it will show the image in the circle

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Thanks, I’d given that a go but the map gets pretty busy with all the circles and setting an image for all the entities isn’t practical. If it was possible to display as an icon, the map would look way less busy.

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https://github.com/home-assistant/frontend/pull/23247 adds support for using icons for entities on map card instead of name/state.

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