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.

While the necessity of location sharing can be evident for ... screen — known as the status bar — is where status icons and symbols are located, and all of them pertain to a particular ...

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 ...