Icon display

 

I have learn that icon should have the same name as the .csv or .gpx to display correctly on your GPSr.

If I have a .gpx for speed alert and each waypoint have different speed limit. How can the icon be displayed properly?

Should I have to split them into different files by speed?

Correct.

Split them up for different speeds/ distances with different sounds and icons.

Good luck!

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thanks

DeltaSly wrote:

Split them up for different speeds/ distances with different sounds and icons.

Good luck!

Thanks

gpx flexibility

gdlcjr wrote:

I have learned that icon should have the same name as the .csv or .gpx to display correctly on your GPSr.

If I have a .gpx for speed alert and each waypoint have different speed limit. How can the icon be displayed properly?

Should I have to split them into different files by speed?

Using gpx files, every waypoint within the file can have a different Speed Alert, Proximity Alert, Alert Sound and icon.

The Mapsource help, talks you through the process of creating multiple <link> statements - unfortunately, this is not what POI Loader expects!!...it will only honour the first one and disregard the rest.

POI Loader makes use of one <link> as follows:
If the <link> points to a file, then it can be to a .bmp or a .jpeg or an .mp3. However you can also specify a link to a directory and contained in the directory have one each of those files.

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what is the best way

Hornbyp wrote:
gdlcjr wrote:

I have learned that icon should have the same name as the .csv or .gpx to display correctly on your GPSr.

If I have a .gpx for speed alert and each waypoint have different speed limit. How can the icon be displayed properly?

Should I have to split them into different files by speed?

Using gpx files, every waypoint within the file can have a different Speed Alert, Proximity Alert, Alert Sound and icon.

The Mapsource help, talks you through the process of creating multiple <link> statements - unfortunately, this is not what POI Loader expects!!...it will only honour the first one and disregard the rest.

POI Loader makes use of one <link> as follows:
If the <link> points to a file, then it can be to a .bmp or a .jpeg or an .mp3. However you can also specify a link to a directory and contained in the directory have one each of those files.

I tried to create a gpx file. It contains my know speed traps on most local area where I used to go. All of them have different speed limit. I set the speed limit by adding @ on the waypoint. It worked fine when I use the POI loader. I would like to attached .bmp using the POI loader. Which logically I have to split them by different speed and just add the speed on the gpx file name. This way I could add my own .bmp (using the existing icon on this site) and add .mp3 for annoucing that speed limit.

Do you think this is the write way?

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gdlcjr wrote:

Do you think this is the right way?

For a simple application like this, there isn't a right way ... you just need to pick the easiest! (and that is going to depend on the starting point).

Assuming that you've already created your gpx file, containing your speed alerts (through the use of the "@xx" syntax, on a per POI basis). For this example, let's assume there's three different speed limits 30,50 and 70 mph (each of which is used multiple times).

So: set up three directories, each containing a .bmp and a .mp3. The .mp3 could be the same in each case "Speed trap ahead", or they could all be different, if you want to get fancy "30mile-per-hour speed trap ahead" etc. The .bmp's you've already said you want to be different.

The directories and their contents are:

c:\mystuff
+
|
+----30mph\
| thirty.bmp
| thirty.mp3
|
+----50mph\
| fifty.bmp
| fifty.mp3
|
+----70mph\
...seventy.bmp
...seventy.mp3

Then within your gpx file, amend the "link" statement for each entry, to reference the directory containing the appropriate .bmp's/.mp3's. You would end up with something like:

Trap1@50
...<link> = c:\mystuff\50mph\
Trap2@50
...<link> = c:\mystuff\50mph\
Trap3@30
...<link> = c:\mystuff\30mph\
Trap4@70
...<link> = c:\mystuff\70mph\
Trap5@50
...<link> = c:\mystuff\50mph\

You could also set different 'Proximities' for each waypoint, if you wanted.

The alternative (more common) method, would involve splitting all the 30mph alerts into one gpx file, all the 50mph alerts into another etc etc. Then you would rename/copy .mp3 and .bmp files to match the names of the .gpx files. (Because the individual entries already contain the speeds, they don't need to be specified in the filenames - though that is yet another option!!).

So in this case, you might end up with:

thirty.gpx
thirty.mp3
thirty.bmp

fifty.gpx
fifty.mp3
fifty.bmp

seventy.gpx
seventy.mp3
seventy.bmp

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I think I prefer the more

I think I prefer the more common. It is easier for me. I create my waypoint using mapsource and save it as GPX.

Thanks.