Here is what icons and symbols mean Blue dot with beam: This symbol indicates your GPS location on Google Maps. The shaded beam around the blue dot indicates the direction you are facing on the maps.

As pictured below, there’s a bright green icon when Google Maps requested the location permission. Opening up the Quick Settings menu and tapping on the icon also brings up a notification that ...

One interesting UI change may have gone unnoticed though. Google Maps has made an adjustment to the shared location user icon. Shared locations has been a huge part of Google Maps for a good while ...