[Icons] Color me

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Useful and nice icon packs are available for Locus.

Some contain the identical base icon in color variants.
A fine pack from the Locus store is the NPS b/w icon pack.
Adding color variants in this rather large pack is unattractive.

Anyway you can apply heading scale and color by the kml IconStyle.
Such imports gives a fine result in both Google Earth and Locus map.
Notice a single white icon dot so allows to represent wpt's in any color.

- Current Locus does NOT exploit the IconStyle for compiling waypoint icons and the associated kmz exports!
- IconStyle applied in a simple offline klm file can usefully color an app default simple white dot waypoint icon.
A simple test kml file with IconStyle color is attached.
Import into Google Earth.
- Since the GE default pushpin body is yellow, unfortunately you can only combine red and green.
- Only the white needle of that default GE yellow pushpin allows itself to be correctly colored in blue.

Find In attachment zip.

- A kmz file shows what is possible with a b/w icon from the NPS pack.
- A gpz file shows what is currently possible with the same NPS b/w icon.
 
Import into Locus 4.26+, set display only, and compare both results.
Import by kmz or gpz does not require the receiver to provide an icon pack.

Notice the nice usefull kmz extra by applying the kml IconStyle.
This extra can be done without extending the b/w icon pack.

- Also through gpz transfer any icon and additonally transfer attachments plus TBT navigation track instructions.
- The gpx standard does not offer IconStyle but an extension imitating the kml_kmz IconStyle should do the trick.
This unique combination can be realized quite easily with Locus, but is not exploited due to lack of awareness.

A small test pack of icons asking to be colored is included.
This "white" pack contains mainly icons provided by slarti76.

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