![]() Now, I copy all five of the above bmp files to the “Custom Waypoint Symbols”, and rename them as described above (e.g. ![]() (Note to concerned archaeologists: This is a fictitious example, and doesn’t depict actual locations of cultural artifacts). I can now use these icons when marking waypoints, and have them show up on the map screen: Using the procedures described previously in this series, the icons are uploaded to the GPS, and show up in the “Custom” waypoint icons section: The magenta color in each graphic is the transparent color, and disappears when uploaded to the GPS. (Note: MapSource can use up to 64 different custom waypoint icons, 000 through 063, but if your GPS unit only supports 24 custom icons, 024 and above would only work in the MapSource display, and would show up on your GPS as a default waypoint icon).įor example, for doing archaeological field surveys, I created five custom waypoint icons, each representing a different prehistoric cultural artifact: Now, rename the Waypoint Symbol files like this: You could probably delete these, but on the off chance you might want them again in the future, you might want to move these into another folder for safekeeping. If this is the first time you’re doing this, you’ll probably find 8 files in that folder, “000.bmp” to “007.bmp” these are 8 dummy custom waypoint icon symbols, plain blue dots, corresponding to the default custom waypoint icon on a Garmin GPS. Once you’ve created and uploaded these icon graphics to your GPS, copy them to MapSource’s “Custom Waypoint Symbols” folder, usually located in the “My Garmin” subfolder of your Windows’ “My Documents” folder. In addition to very strict graphic file requirements, these files have to be named “Waypoint Symbol 000.bmp”, “Waypoint Symbol 001.bmp”, “Waypoint Symbol 002.bmp”, … “Waypoint Symbol 023.bmp”, (for a Garmin 60Cx) corresponding to maximum of 24 custom waypoint icon symbols (for my Garmin 60Cx your unit may be different). The earlier posts described how to create and name graphic files for uploading to your Garmin as custom waypoint icons. For that, you’ll have to use Garmin’s MapSource program (aka Trip and Waypoint Manager), and set up custom waypoint icon graphics so that MapSource can import and use them. ![]() But while third-party software for handling GPX data (both upload and download) will download the waypoints, most (if not all) don’t support display of these custom waypoint icons. The two previous posts in this series dealt with creating and uploading custom waypoint icons to supported Garmin GPS units. ![]() Make sure you have the most recent version. Note: Version 6.15.3 of MapSource accidentally dropped support for custom waypoint icons version 6.15.4 puts it back. ![]()
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