To find out if your unit supports Custom waypoint icons, create a waypoint, select the icon image, and see if Custom as a subcategory of waypoint icons, along with the others listed above.First, you need to download and install Garmins xImage software, so cleverly hidden on their website that even typing xImage into their Search box wont find it.
With some Garmin GPS units, you can also create and upload your own custom splash screen (not on mine, though). Thats not technically true, but for now Ill follow their suggested process. Click on Next, and select Waypoint Symbol as the image type (the alternate choice is Screen Shot, for making a screen capture of your units current display). The colored square is not a representation of the icon, but is instead a representation of the transparent color associated with the icon. For my unit, and I suspect others, that color is purple: 255 Red, 0 Green, 255 Blue. In this case, I have selected Waypoint Symbol 000, and proceeding from here brings up a folder selection dialog i.e. I want to put the downloaded icon graphic. Waypoint Symbol 000.bmp. Heres what it looks like at real pixel dimensions. Many graphic software programs dont support saving BMP files in indexed 256-color 8-bit format, and at least one that Ive tried has problems with it. Related question: Is there a list of the meanings of the symbols I get confused on many of them. Garmin should put the definition at the top of the screen for whichever icon youve got selected.). Garmin has a Map Legend page on their website that lists some of them. Garmin Custom Waypoint Symbols Mac I UseBut I can fire up MapSource (since Im on a Mac I use it little). For example, cities arent shown under Civil as they are in MS. GPS has no stadiumat least under civil. I imagine if I do my own, theyll be out of date or incompatible with the next update (os GPS or software). I keep wanting a symbol for an Internet Cafes (important in thrid world countriesIm now using the post office symbol). I took a quick look through the manual for the new Garmin Colorado series, and theres no mention of supporting custom waypoint symbols, which is a bit odd. I find myself highly unimpressed by the Colorado series, at least based on the manual too expensive, too big a change in the OS, for not much more (if any) functionality. Mapsource has all kinds of neat symbols, but for some reason not all of these icons show up on the gps after I upload my map with this symbols. Determining the accuracy, reliability, validity, or appropriateness of any of the software or data written about in this blog for any uses is the sole responsibility of the reader, not the authors of the blog posts. The blog authors have no liability for any uses of the software or data described here.
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