![]() 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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