Custom Waypoint Icons with Favorites

 

Hi, I know how to use POILoader to load custom bitmaps with custom POI's, but what if I want to have a collection favorites, that I want to show up with a custom wayoint icon. Is this possible?
The advantage of having waypoints saved as favorites rather than POI's is that I like how they show up on the map as you're driving in the area. Custom POI's do not do this, at least mine don't on the 260/265t series.
thanks.

For pois you locate in

For pois you locate in favorite you can select edit and pick from a list of pr-installed icons.No custom icons.

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Charlie. Nuvi 265 WT and Nuvi 2597 LMT. MapFactor Navigator - Offline Maps & GPS.

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...so there's no way to add some custom icons to that existing list that you choose from for Favorites?
thanks.

Not that I am aware of.If

Not that I am aware of.If you use edit for your favorite you will find a lot of icons to pick from.

On the 265 I found that for custom pois when you get close to the location the custom icon will show plus any other custom pois you pass close to without zooming in.Not sure about the 260.

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Charlie. Nuvi 265 WT and Nuvi 2597 LMT. MapFactor Navigator - Offline Maps & GPS.

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The nuvis don't support custom waypoint icons.

but just maybed there is a way

Motorcycle Mama wrote:

The nuvis don't support custom waypoint icons.

I noticed some strange camera icons on my nuvi that didn't used to be there. Turms out that they were representing geotagged photos that I had downloaded from the Garmin site. The thing is that Garmin dosen't really support geotagged photos, they download extra information into "my favorites" when they download a photo. That stores as one of your limited favorites. And I think they are downloading the camera icon too (I don't remember ever seeing it as one of the built-in icons). So if they can download an extra icon and use it with a favorite, there is likely no firmware restriction preventing this. We just have to figure out how they do it and do it too.

So the nuvi itself does seem to support custom icons for favorites; Garmin just isn't telling us how to do it. Unless, of course, the camera was there all along and I missed that.

interesting

I just got a 265T. How close do you get before they show up? I haven't tried that out yet, so that'll be nice.
cheers,

I done a simulation to a

I done a simulation to a Sonny's with a McDonalds close to it that I had to pass.It would only be a guess but around a 1/4 mile.Do the simulation for one of your custom pois close by.I don't like to zoom in to see a icon but you could and see it a lot farther away.

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Charlie. Nuvi 265 WT and Nuvi 2597 LMT. MapFactor Navigator - Offline Maps & GPS.

SouthernAtHeart.I clicked on

SouthernAtHeart.I clicked on your name and seen that you have a nice collection of gps models.Sure you already know about wav files for the 265.

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Charlie. Nuvi 265 WT and Nuvi 2597 LMT. MapFactor Navigator - Offline Maps & GPS.

nope, no custom icons

Frovingslosh wrote:

So the nuvi itself does seem to support custom icons for favorites; Garmin just isn't telling us how to do it. Unless, of course, the camera was there all along and I missed that.

I did some digging into the current.gpx file on my nuvi with the photos in the favorites file. Turns out the camera icon they use is one called "Senic Area" that was indeed there all along. So while you do have a choice from a fair size set of predefined icons, that's it, I can't find a way to expand that lit.

wav files

Yes, works nice (using that sox.eve) whatever it is...
Here's a hypothetical situation I would like to know if it can be:

I have 100 contacts to be made into custom POI's, and 100 .jpg images, 1 for each. The images are all in one folder, named the same as the contacts. I want to add each picture to each contact, which I've done, writing some code to programmatically create the gpx file. So that adds the tag to each POI once. But I also have 1 wav file that I'd like to use as an alert for all of them. Unless I'm mistaken, POI Loader doesn't recognize 2 tags, only the first? (I hope I'm wrong here)
So the only other way to do this would be to create a folder for EVERY contact, move their picture into into it, and a copy of the wav file, then add that folder as the for that POI. Which is about an impossible amount of work.
Has anybody had experience with this kind of thing???

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SouthernAtHeart wrote:

Unless I'm mistaken, POI Loader doesn't recognize 2 tags, only the first? (I hope I'm wrong here) . . . Has anybody had experience with this kind of thing???

The one expert on gpx files is in England and hopefully sleeping right now, but I'm sure Phil Hornby will be around soon. You could probably find out by seeing whether GeePeeEx Editor (even the trial version) will allow it. It might even be addressed in the instructions for use.

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Some work definitely involved...

SouthernAtHeart wrote:

I have 100 contacts to be made into custom POI's, and 100 .jpg images, 1 for each. The images are all in one folder, named the same as the contacts. I want to add each picture to each contact, which I've done, writing some code to programmatically create the gpx file. So that adds the tag to each POI once. But I also have 1 wav file that I'd like to use as an alert for all of them. Unless I'm mistaken, POI Loader doesn't recognize 2 tags, only the first? (I hope I'm wrong here)
So the only other way to do this would be to create a folder for EVERY contact, move their picture into into it, and a copy of the wav file, then add that folder as the for that POI. Which is about an impossible amount of work.
Has anybody had experience with this kind of thing???

What you've described, is the official way to do it. You just need a bit of scripting, if you're to avoid the typing involved in doing it manually...

Note: the gpx spec. allows for multiple <link> statements - and I believe Mapsource will let you create them. POILoader doesn't understand them though sad

If you want multiple enhancements as Garmin calls them, then you have a single <link> to a directory that contains them.

One thing that might work, though I've not tried it, is to use the <link> statement to associate the JPEG, and to use the filename matching algorithm to match the .MP3/.WAV. (Remembering to define an Alert for the POI, via a <proximity> statement, or "@" construct for the name.)

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Please explain

You wrote: ...and to use the filename matching algorithm to match the .MP3/.WAV.
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...When my script creates the gpx file, it asks me for the folder that contains the pictures. Any time it finds a matching name/jpg image, it adds the tag to that picture to the waypoint.
Now, how do I get POI Loader to also add the alert sound? (I've also included the prox. tag in each waypoint in my gpx file) By just putting the .wav file in the same folder as the gpx file, both having the same name?
thanks.

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SouthernAtHeart wrote:

You wrote: ...and to use the filename matching algorithm to match the .MP3/.WAV.
???...
...By just putting the .wav file in the same folder as the gpx file, both having the same name?

Yes, that's the sort of thing I mean.

Of course, every POI would have the same associated audio in this case, which may not suite your application.
Also, I don't know if that algorithm is still active, when it encounters gpx <link> statements.

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Results:

After some experimenting, yes it is possible, with a slight limitation.
Have your POI's include a link to the image
Have the audio file in the same folder as the gpx file
The gpx file and the audio file have to be named exactly the same.
The name must include 'TourGuide' in it

...which means on your device, the category will also have 'TourGuide' in it. I put it at the end so it's not too obtrusive...

Gpx file with photo

SouthernAtHeart.

Find the gpx file with the alert interesting.Curious on the link to the photo.Where does in come into play at? Is it similar to how you link the photo to favorites?

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Charlie. Nuvi 265 WT and Nuvi 2597 LMT. MapFactor Navigator - Offline Maps & GPS.

link to photo

The link is to the jpg file on your computer. Then POI Loader finds it and adds it into the poi.gpi file it creates. There's some good tutorials in here on it that I found helpful.