Today we found ourselves in search of a symbol for a project we were working on. While Explorer has lots to choose from, none of them were exactly what we wanted. So we began a search for symbols on the Web, with the requirement being that the symbol must be in the public domain and free to use. Our search turned up several choices on Wikimedia Commons. That's a place we sometimes forget to check, but is a valuable resource for icons, symbols, pictures, and a variety of other media. Let's go through the steps.

Here's our result, with the default red pushpin:

First we searched Wikimedia Commons to find a symbol we liked. Here's one we found:

We checked the copyright information to make sure it was not copyrighted and in the public domain, and therefore ok for us to use in our project - it was. To add the image to our symbol library, we clicked on the image and copied the URL at the top of the page:

Then we right-clicked the red pushpin in Explorer and opened its properties, and chose symbol properties. We clicked Add a Symbol... and pasted the URL into the Filename input:

This placed the png into our symbol library, and automatically sized it. Here's our new symbol in Explorer: