# App: External map styles

**URL:** <https://forum.kurviger.com/t/app-external-map-styles/4974>\
**Category:** Implemented features\
**Tags:** implemented\
**Created:** [February 25, 2021, 3:36pm UTC](https://forum.kurviger.com/t/app-external-map-styles/4974 "2021-02-25T15:36:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 18, 2021, 6:15pm UTC](https://forum.kurviger.com/t/app-external-map-styles/4974/16 "2021-12-18T18:15:35Z")

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In Kurviger 2.1.11 fuel stations and charging stations have separate icons - but the difference is hardly to detect, especially on a smartphone:

- charging station: ![image](https://forum.kurviger.com/uploads/default/original/2X/3/3585401c2c5ac728e250c1d63c10742a1e2cb2d5.png)
- fuel station: ![image](https://forum.kurviger.com/uploads/default/original/2X/4/4f34f5971062d519043c1562f2bdf335698ccc78.png)

As a first step I modified a style where I just changed the color of the charging station to dark green:

- extract folder “assets” from Kurviger 2.1.11 APK
- rename folder “assets” to “SeparateChargingStation”
- in folder “SeparateChargingStation/kurviger” delete “openmaptiles.xml” (prevent Kurvinger asking for desired style when opening generated style ZIP)
- in folder “SeparateChargingStation/kurviger” rename “default.xml” to “SeparateChargingStation.xml”
- move “SeparateChargingStation.xml” to folder “SeparateChargingStation” (according to hint from @devemux86 above next to [patterns, symbols, textures])
- in folder “SeparateChargingStation\symbols\custom\transport” create a copy of charging\_station.svg and rename it to charging\_station\_green.svg
- edit charging\_station\_green.svg with text editor: in row 16 change **fill=“#ac39ac”** to **fill=“#0e600e”**
- edit SeparateChargingStation.xml with text editor: change all occurences of **“assets:symbols/custom/transport/charging\_station.svg”** to **“file:symbols/custom/transport/charging\_station\_green.svg”**
- ZIP the folder “SeparateChargingStation” to “SeparateChargingStation.zip” and copy it to Android device  
After opening ZIP as a style in kurviger the charging stations have a dark green color: ![image](https://forum.kurviger.com/uploads/default/original/2X/a/a2a03a0afeb0b01445dd03380f6a1223e340094c.png)  
[SeparateChargingStationV0.zip](https://forum.kurviger.com/uploads/short-url/b9PnAofZkh8fdoHbvYwTFpjsL0D.zip) (442,5 KB)

Of course you can apply any other RBG color by choosing an other hex code instead of #0e600e (see e.g. [HTML Color Picker](https://www.w3schools.com/colors/colors_picker.asp)).

Probably it would be also helpful to be able to switch fuel stations and charging stations separately … perhaps I will try later (but do not wait for it 😉 )

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