Icon(icon_url="local_file.png") not working

Hello, I am trying to use a custom image for a marker. The image file is located on my local machine, but I’ve tried a couple different ways to refer to or point to my local image file. I’ve tried:

icon_url=“local_file.png” icon_url=“file:///path/to/local_file.png”

This similar issue https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/ipyleaflet/issues/347 seems to indicate my first example should have worked, but it doesn’t.

I was able to make it work by hosting that image on a localhost, simple HTTP server via python -m http.server, so this worked: Icon(icon_url="http://127.0.0.1:8000/custom_image.png")

I am using jupyter lab on Windows 10 machine with ipywidgets version 7.5.1

[martinRenou]

There is some documentation about this in there: https://ipyleaflet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api_reference/local_tile_layer.html#example, I guess it’s just a matter of copying this documentation to the Image page for now.

But what I am suggesting is to simplify this logic so that it’s not surprising to users.

[martinRenou]

It’s here now https://ipyleaflet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/layers/local_tile_layer.html